Re: staging: me4000 and relation to other data acquisition devices

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:49:18AM -0500, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
I have some questions about the user-kernel interface of the me4000
driver. From my looking through the code it seems specific to the
me4000 hardware which does concern me since there are hundreds of
different data acquisition devices from many different vendors. In my
opinion it would beneficial if at the very least all of these devices
shared a common device interface.

I totally agree.

The me4000's user interface is not "set in stone" and needs to be fixed
up in order to move into the main kernel tree.

Additionally there is the out of tree Comedi project:

http://comedi.org

Which supports this hardware, and many more, with a generic device
interface. There may be other reason not to merge Comedi (I know they
have a desire to maintain support of their RT support), but I can't help
but feel that merging the me4000 driver without thinking about the
hundreds of other devices out there is a mistake.

I would love to get comedi into the kernel tree. People have talked
about it for years now, is it time for me to just take a snapshot and
place it in drivers/staging/ for everyone to then work on cleaning up
properly?

thanks,

greg k-h
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