linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace

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Message-Id: <1163443887.5313.27.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:26 -0500
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 08:58 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Now; there is a second issue. If the choice for one or the other is
> consistent, we should consider fixing the kernel drivers to just not
> advertise the b0rked one.. (this assumes that both drivers are in the
> kernel and both are open source) 

Unfortunately it becomes political quickly.  For example the old OSS
i810_audio driver is still in the kernel even though the ALSA driver
supports more hardware and provides more functionality because some
people consider the ALSA driver bloated.

Lee

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