From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:54:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448F967A.8070801@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606131655580.4856@turbotaz.ourhouse>
Chase Venters wrote:
> At least some of us feel like stable module APIs should be explicitly
> discouraged, because we don't want to offer comfort for code that
> refuses to live in the tree (since getting said code into the tree is
> often a goal).
>
> I'm curious now too - can you name some non-GPL non-proprietary
> modules we should be concerned about? I'd think most of the possible
> examples (not sure what they are) would be better off dual-licensed
> (one license being GPL) and in-kernel.
What about GPL modules that don't want to get merged ? I don't know any
such module that could use this API. But at least there are some webcam
drivers that don't seem to want to be merged (I don't know why).
I agree with making life hard for proprietary modules. I agree that
maintaining a stable API is hard. But I don't see the actual point of
discouraging modules to stay out of tree.
Brice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-12 23:56 [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 5:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-13 11:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-06-13 11:22 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 21:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 21:40 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 22:00 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-13 22:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 22:47 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-13 23:59 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:31 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:53 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 6:07 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 7:58 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 9:28 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-14 10:54 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:36 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-14 6:28 ` David Schwartz
2006-06-13 22:44 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:42 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:05 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:18 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:29 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:36 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:19 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:38 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-14 4:54 ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2006-06-14 5:03 ` Dave Jones
2006-06-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2006-06-14 13:30 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 14:29 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-14 15:26 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 17:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-14 18:03 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 20:52 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 14:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-13 16:27 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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