Some 3.18 development statistics

Posted Nov 26, 2014 19:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Some 3.18 development statistics by Cyberax
Parent article: Some 3.18 development statistics

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.