From: Michael Bender <Michael.Bender@Sun.COM>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: s.schmidt@avm.de, kkeil@suse.de,
libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org,
opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:09:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440CA520.8070507@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060306170542.GB8142@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:47:43PM +0100, s.schmidt@avm.de wrote:
>
>>Compared to other operating systems, such as Mac OS, BeOS,
>>Windows etc., Linux is walking a solitary path with the "user mode only"
>>shift. One gets the impression, that legal concerns are leading Linux to a
>>technically suboptimal/isolated solution.
>
> No, right now, Linux has the best latency numbers _by far_ than any
> other operating system, so we can move stuff to userspace.
>
> And again, it's your legal issues that are forcing you that way, if you
> change that, putting everything in the kernel would be fine :)
(Since this came to me via the libusb list, and we've kind of
gone past libusb-specific-related discussion, I thought I'd
add another question to the thread).
What's the rationale behind the dichotomy between userspace
and kernel licensing models?
mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200601200904.00389.dazzle.digital@gmail.com>
2006-02-03 16:24 ` 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded s.schmidt
2006-02-03 22:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-04 16:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-02-04 19:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2006-02-09 15:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 20:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-16 14:24 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-02-16 14:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-16 19:49 ` [opensuse-factory] " Robert Schiele
2006-02-16 22:09 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-02-16 22:51 ` Karsten Keil
2006-02-17 23:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 14:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2006-03-06 12:47 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-03-06 17:05 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:09 ` Michael Bender [this message]
2006-03-06 22:02 ` [Libusb-devel] " Greg KH
2006-03-07 7:42 ` [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: " Silviu Marin-Caea
2006-03-07 22:10 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07 23:37 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-08 0:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 1:39 ` Douglas McNaught
2006-02-18 2:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-19 4:57 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-19 17:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-20 3:11 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-20 6:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-19 16:25 ` Re[2]: " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-19 3:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-19 3:20 ` Greg KH
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