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> WANT you to build things in. Only if you adhere to their standards, until very recently you couldn't even do rust. If i made something fully working in rus

• witheld 4y ago
  That’s exactly why they want you to do it with them though- so they can make you do it too their standards.
  • IshKebab 4y ago
    No it isn't. The reason you can't write external modules is because the kernel interfaces aren't stable. You would have to provide a module binary for every single kernel version (and maybe even for different configurations). And the reason for that is mostly that providing a stable interface is a) a ton of work, and b) would make distributing closed source drivers easier which is something Linus hates.
    • witheld 4y ago
      if you read the mailing list, you know there’s a lot of reasons. Linus hates out of tree and closed modules for quite a number of reasons- but in this specific context it seems the most relevant.