Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24

["Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>]

On 10/11/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:39 +0200
> "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please don't send 900 line emails to which you have added only an additional
> paragraph.
>
> > >  drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-core.c           |    1 -
> > >  drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-input.c          |    1 -
> > >  drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-video.c          |    6 +-
> >
> > not accepted
>
> Until your attempt to get the userspace-driver work merged into the kernel
> is successful (and from my reading of last month's discussion it is nowhere
> near that), we should continue to maintain the present driver.
>
> If you choose to not participate in that maintenance then others will need
> to do their best in this regard.
>
> What we should not and will not do is to permit the current driver to be
> held hostage to your attempt to force a controversial and apparently
> unwelcome change into the tree.
>

It makes no sense to keep the kernel driver uptodate, it would make
more sense to support the latest driver (which some people are
supporting).
I just had a look at the driver downloads it makes around 600
downloads for september for this driver. If someone's interested in
those stats I can give access to it privatly.
The current option for people who own such a device is to take the
driver from mcentral.de.

Markus