Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760563AbXIQWCz (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:02:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756406AbXIQWCr (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:02:47 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:50911 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755443AbXIQWCq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:02:46 -0400 Message-ID: <46EEFA34.9000508@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:05:40 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel_Fraga?= CC: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Userspace tuner References: <46C1BCC5.9090709@amd.com> <1189626560.5160.57.camel@gaivota> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 34 D?niel Fraga wrote: > Well, I'd like to see Linus' opinion about this, because while > programmers keep discussing this, users are waiting forever... so if > Markus has a concrete and better solution, why don't use it? > > And as far as I know, Markus is the programmer who is most > interested in this code. I didn't see anybody else in the world doing > his work... > > And I always had a impression that if most of things could be > done in user space, than it will be better (for example, devfs -> udev). > Why do everything in kernel space? Lets put *less* code in the kernel, > not more code. And besides that, code in user space can be changed > easily. Code in kernel has to wait a long time for Linus to accept (*if* > he accepts). > The problem with user space drivers is that it encourages binary only drivers, drivers which work only for a limited set of hardware, and other means to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and worse of same. Linus will have an opinion, no doubt. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/