On Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:54, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Limiting what a userspace filesystem can do would defeat the whole > > > purpose of the bloody thing. This is not negotiable ;) > > > > Which doesn't change the fact that FUSE _is_ special, because it adds > > dependencies between processed that were not present before. > > OK, fuse is special. So is the userspace driver framework (UIO) > proposed by Greg KH and co. Now what can be done about these? > > - making them not-special is not an option due to the established > interfaces, which don't allow restartability. > > - fixing the freezer is pretty much impossible because the > dependencies between the tasks cannot be known. > > - removing the freezer and fixing the drivers seems workable, we > already have a prototype in the form of the powermac architecture. > > It seems pretty clear cut. Whining about how much problems this will > cause won't get us nearer to a solution.
Yes, that's pretty clear cut, but we should start from fixing the drivers. :-) Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
