Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal

[Mike Fedyk]

Grigor Gatchev wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Is my description of Linux's device model accurate?  Sure.  Is it
> > useful in terms of telling us what we ought to do in order to improve
> > our architecture?  Not really.  It's just a buzzword-compliant,
> > high-level description which is great for getting great grades from
> > clueless C.S. professors that are more in love with theory than
> > practice.  But that's about all it's good for.
>
>
> You mean that, for example, drawing house elements on paper, and tossing
> some numbers here and back is useless in deciding how to build a house,
> and only getting hands to the real bricks gives you whether this wall
> should be here, and whether that column is thick enough to survive through
> a quake?

You are saying you should build a house with walls.  They're asking for 
a schematic (function prototypes), not to build the house yourself (not 
to code it all yourself).

Oh yeah and what Timothy Miller said! :-D

Mike
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