Re: A query regarding kernel programming, very small

Timur Tabi (ttabi@interactivesi.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:40:41 -0600

** Reply to message from "Venkatesh Ramamurthy" <venkateshr@softhome.net> on
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:13:38 -0500

> driver development is a part of kernel development. Kernel is a bigger
> entity which contains scheduler, io subsystem, memory subsystem etc....
> Drivers comes under the IO subsystem.

I think the confusion stems from the fact that with some operating systems
(like OS/2), drivers are not considered part of the kernel, but with Linux (and
possibly some others), drivers are considered part of the kernel.

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