Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:55:13 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack |
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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.
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