From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755890Ab1LGQ6y (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:58:54 -0500 Received: from ffm.saftware.de ([83.141.3.46]:50554 "EHLO ffm.saftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753679Ab1LGQ6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:58:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4EDF9B48.1080808@linuxtv.org> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:58:48 +0100 From: Andreas Oberritter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , HoP , Florian Fainelli , Alan Cox , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver because of worrying about possible misusage? References: <4EDC9B17.2080701@gmail.com> <4EDD01BA.40208@redhat.com> <4EDD2C82.7040804@linuxtv.org> <20111206112153.GC17194@sirena.org.uk> <4EDE0427.2050307@linuxtv.org> <20111206141929.GE17731@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4EDE2B3B.2080905@linuxtv.org> <20111207134848.GB18837@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4EDF71AE.5070509@linuxtv.org> <20111207161058.GC22355@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> In-Reply-To: <20111207161058.GC22355@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07.12.2011 17:10, Mark Brown wrote: > You're talking about a purely software defined thing that goes in the > kernel - it pretty much has to be able to scale to other applications > even if some of the implementation is left for later. Once things like > this get included in the kernel they become part of the ABI and having > multiple specific things ends up being a recipie for confusion as users > have to work out which of the options is most appropriate for their > application. And to repeat myself once more: No networking is to be perfomed by the kernel in vtunerc.