Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937819AbWLFXza (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:55:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937821AbWLFXz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:55:29 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:59798 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937819AbWLFXz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:55:29 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <45775861.9060507@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:55:13 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061202 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_H=F8gsberg?= CC: Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack References: <20061205052229.7213.38194.stgit@dinky.boston.redhat.com> <20061205184921.GA5029@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <4575FF08.2030100@redhat.com> <45768116.8040804@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <457743E5.4010109@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <457743E5.4010109@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 28 Kristian H?gsberg 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 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/