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
next prev 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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