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From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>,
	Jidong Xiao <jidong.xiao@gmail.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:49:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120224224930.GA5684@polaris.bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120224222034.GB28198@kroah.com>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:20:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > The main issue that set me off has been sufficiently diluted in the
> > (selective) discussion so as to no longer make sense as a reply: At
> > some point, in-tree or out-of-tree will no longer be distinguishable,
> > and the question is if/when/why something would/should happen as a
> > consequence. A matter of politics, if you will. It seemed like an
> > honest question starting this thread, and I think it is fair to keep
> > it in mind as such.
> 
> If something happens to require such a change in the future, we will
> deal with it, at that time.  Remember the rule, "Linux is evolution, not
> intelligent design."

Who "we" is is exactly the point.

For the not-so-important record, evolution does actually create
intelligent designs.

Thanks,
Henrik

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-24 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23  4:56 Can we move device drivers into user-space? Jidong Xiao
2012-02-23 15:57 ` Cong Wang
2012-02-23 16:34   ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-23 20:48     ` david
2012-02-23 21:01       ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 18:21         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-02-25 15:10           ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2012-02-26  0:06             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-02-26  0:29               ` Richard Yao
2012-02-27 11:31                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-02-26  1:58               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2012-02-26  3:34                 ` arts zhao
2012-02-27 11:29                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-02-25 15:31           ` Richard Yao
2012-02-23 21:18       ` Roland Dreier
2012-02-24 15:19 ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 15:38   ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 16:38     ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 16:54       ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 17:06         ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 17:13           ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 17:21             ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 17:31               ` Greg KH
2012-02-25  2:33             ` Richard Yao
2012-02-25  4:28               ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-24 17:10         ` Al Viro
2012-02-25 19:23         ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-25 20:55           ` Greg KH
2012-02-25 23:43             ` Jidong Xiao
2012-02-26 17:40               ` Greg KH
2012-02-26 22:46             ` Greg KH
2012-02-27 11:17       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-02-24 17:07     ` Guenter Roeck
2012-02-24 17:17       ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 17:47         ` Guenter Roeck
2012-02-24 18:34           ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 19:15             ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-24 19:26               ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 20:10                 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-24 20:16                   ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 20:37                     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-24 20:56                       ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 21:22                         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-24 21:30                           ` Ted Ts'o
2012-02-24 22:14                             ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-24 22:20                               ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 22:49                                 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2012-02-24 22:54                                   ` Greg KH
2012-02-24 23:14                                     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-25 12:15                               ` Theodore Tso
2012-02-26  9:54                                 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-26  4:56                               ` Bobby Powers
2012-02-26 10:47                                 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-26 12:26                                   ` Richard Yao
2012-02-26 14:23                                     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-02-26 15:29                                       ` Henrik Rydberg
     [not found]                                     ` <365b85cee33d4f1aadc31336663de21c@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-02-26 15:05                                       ` Richard Yao
2012-02-26 20:30                                         ` Ted Ts'o
     [not found]                                         ` <09a5cca9cffb4300843f682be529e8ca@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-02-26 21:25                                           ` Richard Yao
2012-02-26 21:35                                             ` Theodore Tso
     [not found]                                             ` <10de0ef9fb5d44c08669191e12343a97@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-02-26 22:03                                               ` Richard Yao
2012-02-27 11:17                                                 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-02-26 23:08                                   ` david
2012-02-27  0:01                                     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-27  0:53                                       ` david
2012-02-27  9:07                                         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-03-01  9:54           ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-24 15:58   ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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