As a alleged kernel engineer I wonder what this means for me.
For now, I see it means that one person out of a dozen gets to write the device driver -- if that --and the rest of us get to do patch slavery. heh. :)
as far as linux, it is kind of sucked the air out of the room for embedded development, but I think in kind of a good way. I'm sort of out of an interesting systems job, and people who think they can write an app in user space for their device and be done with it are in for a shock when it doesn't go quite right, but with embedded linux people can just write an app in user space for their device and be done with it. Yes, you read that right.
For now, I see it means that one person out of a dozen gets to write the device driver -- if that --and the rest of us get to do patch slavery. heh. :)
as far as linux, it is kind of sucked the air out of the room for embedded development, but I think in kind of a good way. I'm sort of out of an interesting systems job, and people who think they can write an app in user space for their device and be done with it are in for a shock when it doesn't go quite right, but with embedded linux people can just write an app in user space for their device and be done with it. Yes, you read that right.