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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar <boulabiar@gmail.com>,
	Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>,
	Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:08:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDBCEB6.6020405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=5dNVBHvEtLxcO52AynjCyJq=Dpi6NqMEjd0tb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
> <boulabiar@gmail.com>  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.

Regards,

Hans

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 16:52 Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect Andy Walls
2010-11-10 20:54 ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-10 21:11   ` Antonio Ospite
2010-11-10 21:14     ` Fernando Cassia
2010-11-10 21:14   ` Markus Rechberger
2010-11-10 21:24     ` Antonio Ospite
2010-11-10 21:28       ` Markus Rechberger
2010-11-10 22:48       ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-10 23:13         ` Markus Rechberger
2010-11-10 23:29           ` Antonio Ospite
2010-11-10 23:36             ` Markus Rechberger
2010-11-11  0:13               ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-11 12:54                 ` Markus Rechberger
2010-11-11  1:58               ` hermann pitton
2010-11-11 11:08     ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2010-11-11 12:49       ` Markus Rechberger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-05 13:23 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-10 14:20 ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-10 15:54   ` Antonio Ospite
2010-11-10 16:11     ` Steven Toth
2010-11-10 16:17       ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-11-10 21:02       ` Antonio Ospite

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