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["Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan wrote:
> David wrote:
> > Why do you think they don't need a syscall? Why is the driver more
> > extensible?
> 
> From the point of view of the kernel, adding special cases for 
anything 
> is usually a bad idea. Also, if we were to want to update that, and 
it 
> was compiled into the kernel, we would have to re-release the kernel 
> too, which would be unfortunate. Finally, there really isn't any 
> advantage to a syscall: open() for socket() and ioctl() for the rest 
> really work just as well, without any real speed problems.
> -Nathan

I totally agree the Nathan point of view.

-Philippe

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