linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

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Message-ID: <20080415150542.GC2454@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:05:42 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@...s-3g.org>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	hch@...radead.org, me@...copeland.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:11:27AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
>...
> In my experience the huge difference is for users getting better quality 
> and faster support. It takes from several months to many years to get new 
> features and fixes to millions of user via kernel drivers but it takes a 
> matter of hours/days via user space binaries. This results a much faster, 
> quality and feature efficient release cycle.
> 
> The kernel part is indeed always the most problematic because fixes and new 
> things take very long time to arrive to end users.
>...

I don't think that's true:

Why does it have to take longer to distribute e.g. a new version of the 
ALSA kernel drivers to end users than to distribute a new version of 
userspace binaries to them?

> 	Szaka

cu
Adrian

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