From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: "Devin Heitmueller" <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>,
"Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>,
v4l <video4linux-list@redhat.com>,
linux-dvb@linuxtv.org,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
em28xx <em28xx@mcentral.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:27:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020811010927o2d006058t89ba64363567ecc5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811011721.46016.hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> At this time I do not advocate replacing the current em28xx driver. But
> when they are both in the kernel, then I expect and hope that the best
> features of the em28xx driver are merged into the empia driver and that
> the current em28xx driver can eventually be dropped.
We've done that many times and it usually ends up with us dragging the
old driver along for a very long time (look at the eepro100 driver
removal as an example). So you really want to just incrementally fix
up em28xx driver to avoid a mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-01 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-01 14:05 Hans Verkuil
2008-11-01 14:36 ` [linux-dvb] " Andy Walls
2008-11-01 15:46 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-11-01 16:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-01 16:19 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-11-01 16:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-01 17:55 ` Markus Rechberger
2008-11-01 16:21 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-11-01 16:27 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-11-01 16:51 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-11-02 4:02 ` Markus Rechberger
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