Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 26, 2014 7:28 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
Parent article: Some 3.18 development statistics

> As is usually the case, H. Hartley Sweeten tops the by-changesets list with the epic task of getting the Comedi drivers into shape in the staging tree.

That must be some ungodly mess. How long has he been at it?

Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 26, 2014 8:45 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

Looks like it's been close to 4 years by now. I wonder, where can one get a Comedi device for cheap?..

Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 26, 2014 19:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

It seems like it would have been easier to write a new driver. Heck, it seems like it would have been easier to write a new *kernel*.

Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 26, 2014 20:52 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (1 responses)

A Comedi of errors, perhaps?

Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 27, 2014 17:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

My thoughts exactly -- at least in its original state.

Perhaps it's taking so long because it supports about sixty million different pieces of hardware: <http://www.comedi.org/hardware.html>. i.e. this is not "a driver", it's *lots* of drivers, and they were all horrible.

Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 30, 2014 20:18 UTC (Sun) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

I am similarily intrigued. Maybe LWN would be interested to run a feature about Mr. Sweeten and the Comedi drivers?