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Old 07-22-2007, 02:50 PM Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive
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liquidat writes "Linus Torvalds has included patches into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel. The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The last patch to Linus' tree included the new API elements. The idea is to make life easier for driver developers: 'This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Old 07-22-2007, 07:35 PM Re: Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive
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Sweet, so linux might start getting more driver support for a larger array of products. Might make switching a lot less painful.
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