pre-90

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:19:48 -0700


Linus Torvalds wrote:

> pre-90 does a few other minor things, like for example getting rid of
> kerneld because the new kmod thing is a lot simpler in many ways. Let's
> see what the reaction to that is, but I'm fairly certain that this was a

The reaction is certainly: POSITIVE POSITIVE POSITIVE.

The kerneld was an increddible bad design! I was always wondering why it
ever polluted the kernel!

(Since there are usually always more people complaining regardless of
the issue this is mainly intenden to make some positive bias up...)

> major good thing: I've personally never liked kerneld, but kmod seems to
> be a much nicer and more controlled way of handling the same issues that
> kerneld tried to do.

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