Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Feb 25 2012 - 15:56:25 EST


On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 02:23:07PM -0500, Jidong Xiao wrote:
> Hi, Greg,
>
> These two studies support my point. If the first one is too old, then
> the second one should be more convincing. To save your time, you can
> take a look at their conclusion first.
>
> An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors
> http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/metrics-sosp-01.pdf
>
> Faults in Linux: Ten Years Later
> http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Suman.Saha/src/asplos11.pdf

This second paper proves my point, it's funny that you tried to use it
to prove yours, you obviously must not have read the conclusion...

Anyway, any paper that goes "look at all of these problems in the code!"
and isn't instantly followed by patches fixing ALL of those problems by
the authors of the paper, should be ignored as a troll masquerading as a
"study".

greg k-h
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