On Tuesday 18 November 2008 21:16:49 Andy Johnson wrote: > My question is : why? It's really similiar to the questions: Why do we have udev? Why didn't we fix devfs instead? Or why is hotplugging in userspace? It's all basically, because we don't _need_ to have it in the kernel. Having it in userspace means much easier code (often no locking needed). Having it in userspace means, it's easily runtime replacable. Even after crashes. Having it in userspace means exploitable bugs are less likely to affect the whole system. There probably are a lot more reasons to do this. -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
