Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:36:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver |
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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
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