From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 01:55:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilz8c7ff.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTvuDsrUNhg/VXD0@localhost>
On Fri, Sep 10 2021 at 16:45, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 12:52:14AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> On media, enforcing userspace to always be open source would
>> have been very bad, as it would prevent several videoconferencing
>> software to exist on Linux.
>
> I don't think we should enforce that all userspace users of an interface
> be Open Source. I do think we should enforce that *some* userspace user
> of an interface be Open Source before we add the interface.
The real question is whether the interface is documented in a way that
an Open Source implementation is possible. It does not matter whether it
exists at that point in time or not. Even if it exists there is no
guarantee that it is feature complete.
Freely accessible documentation is really the key.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-10 21:00 Jonathan Corbet
2021-09-10 21:32 ` Josh Triplett
2021-09-13 13:50 ` Christian Brauner
2021-09-13 13:57 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-09-14 2:07 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-14 14:40 ` Jani Nikula
2021-09-14 14:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-14 14:59 ` Jani Nikula
2021-09-14 15:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-10 21:51 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-10 21:59 ` Alexandre Belloni
2021-09-10 22:35 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-11 14:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-09-11 15:24 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-11 21:52 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-14 13:22 ` Johannes Berg
2021-09-11 0:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-10 22:52 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-10 23:45 ` Josh Triplett
2021-09-10 23:48 ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-11 0:13 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-10 23:55 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-09-11 0:20 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-11 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-11 22:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-11 22:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-11 23:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-13 11:10 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-11 22:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-11 23:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-11 10:31 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-11 11:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-11 12:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-11 22:04 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-12 4:27 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-12 7:26 ` Greg KH
2021-09-12 8:29 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-12 13:25 ` Greg KH
2021-09-12 14:15 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-12 14:34 ` Greg KH
2021-09-12 16:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-12 20:35 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-12 20:41 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-12 20:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-09-12 21:12 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-12 22:51 ` Linus Walleij
2021-09-12 23:15 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-13 13:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-13 13:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-09-13 22:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-13 23:33 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-14 9:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-14 9:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-09-14 10:47 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-14 12:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-14 19:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-09-14 15:43 ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-13 14:52 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-14 13:07 ` Linus Walleij
2021-09-13 14:03 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-12 15:55 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-12 16:43 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-12 16:58 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-12 17:08 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-12 19:52 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-12 7:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-12 8:00 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-12 14:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-12 15:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-10 23:46 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-11 0:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-11 9:27 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-11 22:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-09-13 12:04 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-12 19:13 ` Dave Airlie
2021-09-12 19:48 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-09-13 2:26 ` Dave Airlie
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