Re:Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Sl...
by quotemstr on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:29PM
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Why should drivers necessarily run in the kernel? With appropriate abstraction for interrupts, DMA, etc. much of the work could be done in userland.
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Re:Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Sl...
by umanwizard on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:55PM
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That’s true, but it’s AFAICT a separate question.
The question I was responding to was: “accepting that, rightly or wrongly, Linux drivers run in kernel mode, does it make sense for them to be in the source tree?”