Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac3

Luca Risolia
2004-10-23T17:33:03Z

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:54:25 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> Luca Risolia wrote:
> >>o Restore PWC driver (Luc Saillard)
> >
> >
> > This driver does decompression in kernel space, which is not
> > allowed. That part has to be removed from the driver before
> > asking for the inclusion in the mainline kernel.
>
> What do you mean by "not allowed?"

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&m=108627734619978&w=2

Also note how Alan Cox seems not to be actually coherent with his
previous opinions.

Clearly it would nice if it were in
> user space, but it would have to be in EVERY user application to be
> useful. We have compression in kernel for ppp, and there's only one
> significant use for that, requiring that every application support every
> vendor hardware makes it a non-scalable NxM problem.

Hmm..What about a common library finally?

Luca Risolia