On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar <boulabiar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > As time goes on things evolve and change. > 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'm not writing about open vs closed source just that userspace is more flexible for endusers (don't mix that up). Markus > 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
