Re: A newbie's view

[Ely Wilson <plexus@ionet.net>]

>    Bloat that could itself go in a module loaded only when needed,
> gaining the user a safety net if he forgets an essential module and
> possibly opening an avenue for hardware vendors to put a Linux module
> on their CDs without the versioning problems that make it impossible
> now.

Bloat covers, code-size and execution speed.  By enabling this as a loadable
module how do you think another layer (Kernel Module API) could have it's
execution speed increased?

I don't care about code size, a module is a module and if the system boots I
can cope with code size.  I do, however, care about an extra execution layer
between my
program->kernel->insertAPIhere->hardware<-APIhere<-kernel<-program

I envy linux for it's lack of execution layers.

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