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Comment Re:TDD (Score 1) 156

Good job on not paying attention to the last ten years of Linux development.

So the stuff that isn't a hardware driver attached to the Linux kernel isn't in the kernel ... good job on deducing that.

Printers aren't in the kernel because (get this) they aren't part of the hardware. The Bluetooth stack isn't hardware, the hardware is hardware. That stuff's in the kernel. The sound system? The hardware support is (again) in the kernel, the stuff that's at a higher level isn't.

There are some very specific edge cases, but for the most part, all actual hardware support in Linux is in the kernel because that's where it belongs in a monolithic design.

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