On Monday 17 December 2001 21:31, Alexander Viro wrote:
> There is a word for that and that word is "crap".
>
> Let loader leave an archive to be unpacked into rootfs? Sure. Let kernel
> exec /init on rootfs and leave the rest to it? Absolutely. But let's
> stop adding userland stuff into the kernel.
I agree 100%. there are several other popular systems that try to do
everything in-kernel and it adds to the instability overall, besides it gives
less freedom to customize with standard tools.
Craig.
Loading modules _can_ be
> done from userland - insmod does it just fine. And that's where it should
> be done.
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