On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Sean Davis wrote:
> > > Just as an idea, why not offer a userland plugin API for
> > > commercial driver support in userspace?  The plugin API can be
> > > fully opensource, and companies like 4front can release their
> > > drivers in userspace, so that it would be independant of the
> > > kernel.  Anyways I do not know enough about the kernel, to know
> > > how well this would work out, but hey it is an suggestion, so
> > > no flames please.
> >
> > I like that idea. I have absolutely no clue as to how to impliment it, but I
> > think it could be handy.
>
> Um... LKM?


It sounded like the idea meant _not_ running in kernel address space, etc,
thus addressing the stability issue...