Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752946AbYJ1Pub (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:50:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751981AbYJ1PuX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:50:23 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.29]:64750 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbYJ1PuW (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:50:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; b=s6WTjDMHQx194XpLdzNxlxfOjLs12DrXUrDCZ+nRHjc2K4a8n8QdVFOQ8HXCdAMyuO rl4mT5LsNfJUrQbKF1VEORZ4dkrgVtpwvnIKuOjCG5lwWg0ciaBU2sA6u3pCTfxtC6kh ExxN/G7PPp0vuscvWAG/qTERTE3J4Q1W3brSQ= Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:49:18 -0500 From: Shawn Bohrer To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: David Schleef , Frank Mori Hess , Ian Abbott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Beiter , Guenter Gebhardt Subject: staging: me4000 and relation to other data acquisition devices Message-ID: <20081028154918.GA5630@mediacenter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 24 I have some questions about the user-kernel interface of the me4000 driver. From my looking through the code it seems specific to the me4000 hardware which does concern me since there are hundreds of different data acquisition devices from many different vendors. In my opinion it would beneficial if at the very least all of these devices shared a common device interface. Additionally there is the out of tree Comedi project: http://comedi.org Which supports this hardware, and many more, with a generic device interface. There may be other reason not to merge Comedi (I know they have a desire to maintain support of their RT support), but I can't help but feel that merging the me4000 driver without thinking about the hundreds of other devices out there is a mistake. -- Shawn -- 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/