Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: uswsusp history lesson

Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-08T18:03:26Z

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 19:49 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:47:26PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 18:43 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:41:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > Very often, choice is good. but for something this fundamental, it is
> > > > not. We also don't have 2 scsi layers for example.
> > >
> > > We have 2 ide layers, 2 usb-storage drivers, 2 sound systems and we
> > > have had 2 pcmcia subsystems and 2 usb subsystems.
> >
> > well not sure about all of them... but it sucks.
>
> - drivers/ide vs. Alan's libata work
> - usb-storage vs. ub
> - oss vs. alsa
>
> And for the old ones:
> - pcmcia-cs vs. Linus' yenta code
> - the old usb stuff vs. Linus' rewrite
>
> And I've forgottem v4l1 vs. v4l2 too.

you're giving a nice list of "technology A obsoletes technology B".
That's fine. It's also an entirely different situation.