Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Fri, 24 May 2002 21:25:33 -0700

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:08:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It all tends to boil down to a device driver in the end, and the amount of
> support you're willing to give it. Soft realtime can handle the rest.
>
> Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like
> user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just
> stupid.

Amen to that. 

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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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