Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive 309
liquidat writes "Linus Torvalds has included patches into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel. The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The last patch to Linus' tree included the new API elements. The idea is to make life easier for driver developers: 'This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses.'"
I thought I read Uberspace (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Better drivers and more of them (Score:5, Funny)
If only there were some magical pool of experienced labor just waiting to write and maintain, in perpetuity, Linux drivers for any manufacturer of any hardware....
Re:Full circle? (Score:5, Funny)
And always will be.
microkernel (Score:2, Funny)
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