Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:11:27AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
>...
> In my experience the huge difference is for users getting better quality 
> and faster support. It takes from several months to many years to get new 
> features and fixes to millions of user via kernel drivers but it takes a 
> matter of hours/days via user space binaries. This results a much faster, 
> quality and feature efficient release cycle.
> 
> The kernel part is indeed always the most problematic because fixes and new 
> things take very long time to arrive to end users.
>...

I don't think that's true:

Why does it have to take longer to distribute e.g. a new version of the 
ALSA kernel drivers to end users than to distribute a new version of 
userspace binaries to them?

> 	Szaka

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/