Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

[Stefan Richter]

Kristian Høgsberg 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
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