Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mar 16, 2007, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161145520.5518@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703161509560.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> We already _have_ the data structures!

Well... Shawn and I are contemplating alternate data structures to improve things dramatically.

With a fixed public API I doubt such improvements could be as effective.

One thing that was really done right in the Linux kernel is to _not_ have any sort of fixed API at all for drivers. This is a big upside for progress. Yet the Linux kernel is regarded as highly useful.

So... if any API is to be developed, I'd argue that it must be done _above_ the existing code with a higher level of abstraction and a much narrower scope.

Nicolas

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