- From: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx_at_mech.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:08:00 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, superaorta_at_tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>>> 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.
Why should that happen, _if_ the "people from the floor" are taken into the
design loop...? Anyway there is not much that I would like to see changed in
the current Comedi API! Comedi has been hesitant to go into a "1.0 API
freeze", and this LDP offer might be the perfect opportunity to finally
make this decision.
BTW, what are, in the opinion of the Comedi users/developers, the real
'showstoppers' to move to "1.0"...?
Herman Bruyninckx
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Received on 2007-10-25Z08:08:00