Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267352AbUIFABq (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267353AbUIFABq (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:01:46 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:21663 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267352AbUIFABo (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:01:44 -0400 Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design From: Alan Cox To: Jon Smirl Cc: Keith Whitwell , Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Airlie , Jon Smirl , DRI Devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mharris@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <9e4733910409051511148d74f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <4139C8A3.6010603@tungstengraphics.com> <9e47339104090408362a356799@mail.gmail.com> <4139FEB4.3080303@tungstengraphics.com> <9e473391040904110354ba2593@mail.gmail.com> <1094386050.1081.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e47339104090508052850b649@mail.gmail.com> <1094398257.1251.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e47339104090514122ca3240a@mail.gmail.com> <1094417612.1936.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e4733910409051511148d74f0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094425142.2125.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:59:04 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 18 On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 23:11, Jon Smirl wrote: > What is the advantage to continuing a development model where two > groups of programmers work independently, with little coordination on > two separate code bases trying to simultaneously control the same > piece of hardware? This is a continuous source of problems. Why can't > we fix the development model to stop this? I don't see that as much of a problem. The mess arises from some simple lacks in the objects in kernel and the methods required to co-ordinate. Lots of drivers are written by a lot of people in the kernel and they work just fine. The ext3 authors don't spend their lives co-ordinating with SCSI driver authors, they just get the API right. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/