On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite <ospite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:36 +0100 > Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar >> <boulabiar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The bounty is already taken by that developer. >> > >> > But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. >> > Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. >> > >> >> This should better remain in userspace and interface libv4l/libv4l2 no >> need to make things more complicated than they have to be. > > I can see at least two reasons for a kernel driver: > 1. performance > 2. out-of-the-box experience: the casual user who wants to just use > kinect as a normal webcam doesn't have to care about installing some > library out of the box experience libusb works everywhere, ARM/MIPS/PPC/etc. Kerneldrivers are usually not installed with those systems. Higher backward compatibility as well (shall go down to 2.6.15) with one compiled driver, relevant endusers do not want to compile believe me. Developers might want but that's another story. Markus > > If there are arguments against a kernel driver I can't see them yet. > > Ciao, > Antonio > > -- > Antonio Ospite > http://ao2.it > > PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
