Re: status of the USB w9968cf.c driver in kernel 2.6?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:58:33AM +0100, Luca Risolia wrote:
> Scrive Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Luca Risolia wrote:
> > > Scrive Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>: 
>...
> > > > - there's no w9968cf-vpp module in the kernel sources 
> > >  
> > > w9968cf-vpp is an optional, gpl'ed module, which can not be included in the
> > 
> > > mainline kernel, as I explained in the documentation of the driver. 
> > 
> >   Please keep in mind that official kernels do not include the second 
> >   module for performance purposes.
> > 
> > What exactly does this mean?
> 
> Frame decoding/decompression should be done in userspace, although you can 
> still download and use a separate kernel module.
>...

If it's deprecated to do this in a kernel module, shouldn't at some time 
the EXPORT_SYMBOL's for the decoding/decompression module be removed 
from the kernel?

> Regards,
> Luca

cu
Adrian

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