> driver authors will write code that takes advantage of its privilege state in a monolithic kernel to bypass the constraints of the driver API. Well, your job

> driver authors will write code that takes advantage of its privilege state in a monolithic kernel to bypass the constraints of the driver API. Well, your job is shipping the driver. If the API is limited and/or your existing drivers in Windows or other OSs do something and the linux driver doesn't then you have a problem Linux kernel pros: it evolves organically Linux kernel cons: it evolves organically