Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.
And OSS/ALSA is an example why this is not a good thing:
- OSS in the kernel is unmaintained
Because it is dead, yes...
- people forced to use OSS drivers can't use applications only
supporting ALSA
That is another problem. The problem is different API's. With networking
drivers, that should really not be a problem once the device is up. You
don't speak differently to different network devices, so applications
will just do fine.
But if you have the possibility to choose which stack to use at the
beginning (as in the wireless case), the only reasonable solution is to
choose _one_ stack.
... _if_ you have the possibility, yes. But you might end up having
chosen the wrong one. There is a reason why two stacks exist.
Tim
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