Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> You have to look at the matter not only from the POV of API design but >> also of deployment and support. > > My POV here *is* about deployment and support, but from the kernel side > of things. If you commit yourself to long time support for the firewire > stack, would you prefer 4 slightly different streaming drivers with > different user space interfaces, or just one userspace driver with one > userspace interface, that enables the 4 different types of streaming to > be done in userspace?
My own preference certainly came across during in the recent thread on linux1394-devel about deprecation dates... :-) > The design of the streaming interfaces have been > focused on enabling all these ad-hoc, in-kernel drivers to move to > userspace, to make it feasible to actually support the stack. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- ==-- --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
