21 Jan
2008
21 Jan
'08
5:02 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:54 +0100, Albert Graef wrote:
Jay Vaughan wrote:
That's exactly why it should be either moved into the mainline kernel
(no, I'm not voluteering to do that :-) or completely into user space.
What is it that makes that last option impossible?
-- Fernando
Well I have it working fine on both 2.4 and 2.6
kernels, so I don't know
what the dilemna is here, really ..
Judging from what I read on the Midishare list, most Linux users of
Midishare indeed have trouble dealing with compilation probs in the
kernel module. Not you and me, but you can't expect end users to be able
to handle problems due to the ever-changing kernel API. This stuff isn't
trivial. You don't have to be a kernel hacker (I'm certainly not), but
you really need to understand the Midishare code if you have to sift the
kernel headers for a replacement for some kernel routine which just
miraculously disappeared, thanks to your friendly kernel dev cleaning up
the kernel code. I've done it more than once...