The costs of forks
The costs of forks
Posted Jun 25, 2015 12:37 UTC (Thu) by Funcan (subscriber, #44209)In reply to: The costs of forks by fandingo
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There absolutely *were* multiple wifi stacks in kernel for ages, with incompatable userspace tools. Took ages to clean up. Ditto sound interfaces - OSS, ALSA, some other
Posted Jun 25, 2015 17:06 UTC (Thu)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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The costs of forks
I guess the "some other" there is the Firewire audio stack, which IIRC is only accessible via the JACK daemon. On a similar tangent, there used to be two *normal* FW stacks until recently. And then there's USB, where device drivers can be written in-kernel and/or userspace, or bits of both at the same time...