Well, I'd like to see Linus' opinion about this, because whileThe problem with user space drivers is that it encourages binary only drivers, drivers which work only for a limited set of hardware, and other means to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and worse of same.
programmers keep discussing this, users are waiting forever... so if
Markus has a concrete and better solution, why don't use it?
And as far as I know, Markus is the programmer who is most
interested in this code. I didn't see anybody else in the world doing
his work...
And I always had a impression that if most of things could be
done in user space, than it will be better (for example, devfs -> udev).
Why do everything in kernel space? Lets put *less* code in the kernel,
not more code. And besides that, code in user space can be changed
easily. Code in kernel has to wait a long time for Linus to accept (*if*
he accepts).