Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote:

> > I'm not claiming that this is a better solution than putting everything
> > in the kernel.  Just that it is a workable alternative which would
> > involve a lot less coding.
> 
> This is definitely an interesting proposal, something to think about ...
> 
> I have 2 concerns wrt this approach:
> 
> 1) It feels less clean then just having a single driver; and

Agreed.

> 2) I agree it will be less coding, but I doubt it will really be that much
> less work. It will likely need less new code (but a lot can be more or
> less copy pasted), but it will need changes across a wider array of
> subsystems / userspace components, requiring a lot of coordinating,
> getting patches merged in different projects, etc. So in the end I
> think it too will be quite a bit of work.
> 
> I guess that what I'm trying to say here is, that if we are going to
> spend a significant amount of time on this, we might just as well
> go for the best solution we can come up with even if that is some
> more work.

Okay, go ahead.  I have no objection.

Alan Stern

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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Media]     [Linux Input]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Old Linux USB Devel Archive]

  Powered by Linux