linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:38 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:

> Kind of makes me wonder once again why the kernel itself can't handle a
> simple flat file config system ? Maybe Redhat style VARIABLE=value
> pairs. Its pure, its simple, you can edit it as plain text - best of all
> if it exists as a common API without dependency then people would use
> it.

That's not a kernel job, but a userspace job. The kernel should keep
managing hardware resources.