Re: video(4) landed. "No webcam driver" is dead.

David Chisnall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 10 Aug 2026, at 20:42, Abdelkader Boudih <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Webcam. YES. You don't need userland daemon now. 

So, we’re moving a load of fault-isolated code that can run with reduced privileges and be restarted with no system-wide damage into the kernel where a single bug can crash the entire system?

That doesn’t sound like an improvement.  I probably missed the design review, why are we moving code that has been demonstrated to have performance requirements that can be satisfied in userspace into the kernel?

David
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