Subject: Re: Bad Mistake by Announce List Owner
To: Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/16/2001 14:55:19
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?


 - Hubert

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