On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've seen alot projects failing due not having enough users > If it should mainly remain a hacker only project then a kernel module > should be fine. sorry ? > aside of that you can just debug userspace drivers with gdb, valgrind > etc. if issues come up it will only affect your work not the entire > system, kernel is seriously something critical. So you think that most of actual drivers which are inside the kernel are bad ? if it is inside the kernel it will be better maintained and fixed. External dependencies will break many things and add exceptions. You already got an answer for an issue similar to this from Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/10/244 Most of people want to download a kernel that just has all things inside. not search for other dependencies somewhere. If it is inside the kernel, many licensing problems will disappear. What if I want to develop something based on that userspace GPL library, should I search which license should I use (and there are many MIT/BSD/LGPL/...)? i -- 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
