On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:18:25PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > Because it makes far more sense to have a user mode program to drive the > features, and for the kernel to provide the necessary thin layer to > access the features. It makes sense for the kernel to provide a consistent abstraction of hardware functionality where possible. Almost every kernel driver could be rewritten in userspace - that doesn't make it a good idea. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
