From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262110AbUBWXLU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:11:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262086AbUBWXLP (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:11:15 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30902 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262112AbUBWXJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:09:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:11:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Hunold Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update Message-Id: <20040223151111.441c0d6d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> References: <10775702831806@convergence.de> <10775702843054@convergence.de> <20040223140943.7e58eb5c.akpm@osdl.org> <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Hunold wrote: > > Changing the i2c subsystem would require changes in all frontend drivers > + plus in the dvb drivers exporting the i2c facilities. > > Is such a big change acceptable for 2.6 if it fixes these horrible hacks > or is this 2.7 stuff? Depends on your confidence level, Michael. We have ways of getting such things tested before pushing them into the mainline kernel and we wouldn't do that until you're confident in it. And it's not really the end of the world if DVB is a bit wobbly for a while (sorry ;)). So yeah, I'd be inclined to push ahead and do the right thing here.