Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:14:32AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going > > to be handled by the Linux kernel developers, you might want to post > > the above questions on the linux-kernel mailing list. > > Imp

Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Chris Bannister writes: > Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going > to be handled by the Linux kernel developers, you might want to post > the above questions on the linux-kernel mailing list. Implementing networking outside the kernel does not affect the kernel. Just

Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:48:01AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > I don't think that the Debian *USER* mailing list is necessarily the > best place to discuss/debate the above stuff. :-) > > Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going to > be handled by the Linux kernel dev

Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-12 Thread David Guntner
Albretch Mueller grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > ~ > I think, for security reasons and now that we live in a post > 1984-era, Linux should move networking out of the kernel and into to > user land. > ~ > Well, I know this will entail more than moving some code and > references and defining a defa