Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:36:51 +0200
From: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, luc@saillard.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac3
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:54:25 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> Luca Risolia wrote:
> >>o       Restore PWC driver                              (Luc Saillard)
> > 
> > 
> > This driver does decompression in kernel space, which is not
> > allowed. That part has to be removed from the driver before
> > asking for the inclusion in the mainline kernel.
> 
> What do you mean by "not allowed?"

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&m=108627734619978&w=2

Also note how Alan Cox seems not to be actually coherent with his
previous opinions.

 Clearly it would nice if it were in 
> user space, but it would have to be in EVERY user application to be 
> useful. We have compression in kernel for ppp, and there's only one 
> significant use for that, requiring that every application support every 
> vendor hardware makes it a non-scalable NxM problem.

Hmm..What about a common library finally?

Luca Risolia
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