Re: LDP and comedi

>> distributions.  To my understanding, there are a bunch of DAQ drivers
>> in the mainline kernel that would benefit from a standardized
>> userspace interface.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any comments or would like to be involved.

> I would like to be involved, at least as far as the definition of the API
> standard for data acquisition is concerned: I think a discussion is needed
> first about how 'the ideal' API should look like. The RTDM people (Jan
> Kiszka in particular) have done some very interesting work in this domain;

This is where I start to get worried about the move to LDP, where COMEDI 
morphs from a small community of users into some large amorphous, abstract 
layer that begins to move away from the hardware into programmers wet dream.  

My concern would be that in five years time the interface would be so abstract 
and the learning curve so difficult that someone will feel the need to start 
COMEDI again to actually get some work done.

SA

Received on 2007-10-25Z07:23:46