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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:08:38 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect
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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