From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765078AbYDOPHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:07:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756943AbYDOPGx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:06:53 -0400 Received: from smtp6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.40]:40844 "EHLO smtp6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754609AbYDOPGx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:06:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:05:42 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Szabolcs Szakacsits Cc: Miklos Szeredi , dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@infradead.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-ID: <20080415150542.GC2454@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <10224488.783261208172602425.JavaMail.szaka@kolumbus.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:11:27AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: >... > In my experience the huge difference is for users getting better quality > and faster support. It takes from several months to many years to get new > features and fixes to millions of user via kernel drivers but it takes a > matter of hours/days via user space binaries. This results a much faster, > quality and feature efficient release cycle. > > The kernel part is indeed always the most problematic because fixes and new > things take very long time to arrive to end users. >... I don't think that's true: Why does it have to take longer to distribute e.g. a new version of the ALSA kernel drivers to end users than to distribute a new version of userspace binaries to them? > Szaka cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed