On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:38 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > Kind of makes me wonder once again why the kernel itself can't handle a > simple flat file config system ? Maybe Redhat style VARIABLE=value > pairs. Its pure, its simple, you can edit it as plain text - best of all > if it exists as a common API without dependency then people would use > it. That's not a kernel job, but a userspace job. The kernel should keep managing hardware resources.