> This really goes into a side-topic, but plainly:
>
> The general driver/random module framework in Linux really needs to get
> separated from the core kernel, and made so that it doesn't need to be
> recompiled between minor kernel versions. Perhaps even pulling the
> drivers in general apart from each other, just aggregating releases for
> convenience.
...and licensing issues aside (probably only GPL for the moment), this
kind of thing could form the basis for an open-source kernel/OS-independent
set of drivers.
I know that I have been intending on doing a Linux driver compatibility
layer of sorts for my OS project (going to be GPL'd) I'm working on.
Maybe there are some others interested in this kind of project?
--
Erich Stefan Boleyn <erich@uruk.org> http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"
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