On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger 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. >> > > As the author and maintainer of libv4l I say no, webcam drivers and > the like belong in kernel space. libv4l is there to add things > like format conversion (de-bayering in this case) which do not belong > in userspace. > > Also there is no way to do 100% reliable isoc data handling from > userspace. > That's just your opinion we have 100% reliable isoc data handling in userspace, transferring 21 Mbyte/sec without any problem. And the driver works from 2.6.15 on - without recompiling. We're just about to release a new device in a few days, kernelsupport is absolutely not interesting since most distributions would not ship support for those devices at time of product release. Best Regards, Markus -- 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
