Al Hopper wrote: <My personal experience tells me that this statement is totally inaccurate. Why, because with the kernel interfaces constantly changing, most Linux driver developers have been unable to provide drivers as loadable modules or in binary form. Even the module loaders requirements change. And why is this? Well because Linus believes that stable APIs and ABIs stiffle innovation. Has he looked at Solaris 10 and DTrace recently - no impact on Solaris API/ABI stability while providing *lots* of innovation!>
You're absolutely right (I should have known better). & this is one of the reasons why it has so often happened that a LiveCD (which freezes the kernel version, kernel API, loadable module, etc.) works on a particular hardware setup, but an installed system doesn't. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
