On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:05:18PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > > The fact that Linux has always done this wrong is not a reason to go > > chasing after them and reinventing their mistakes. > > As usual, you managed to marvellously miss the point. The reason Linux does > this (right) is the amount of device drivers and other components that > exceed the ones in NetBSD by several factors.
I found that a surprisingly large part of that is a result of badly designed drivers and resulting duplication of code. As such, it is more a lazy excuse than a good justification for behvaior. Joerg
