From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] kernel modules From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <2b7b451e1182a260aa2887e810b907f4@plan9.escet.urjc.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:46:34 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 84584478-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 dynamically-loaded modules are useful--perhaps even essential-- for some things, but most usb work still doesn't really require kernel support for much more than managing the IO streams once the device is configured. the interface to those streams needs to be improved, partly because the spec was ambiguous about one point, and partly because of experience with it, but having looked at the usb support in other systems, i think it's good to aim to keep it out of the kernel.