Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
...
We can always undo mistakes later, but
we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction
instead of ten.
You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the
moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in
deciding this now.
No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and
some the second one.
You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either
rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some
hardware.
By "die", I didn't mean "delete it from kernel sources".
It is very probable that over time, the "winning" stack will contain
most drivers for the most common hardware, and the "losing" one just a
few obscure ones. The "losing" one will still be available for people
using hardware only supported by that stack.
Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.
Tim
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