Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:35:43 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:11:08PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:36 +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > >I didn't find any way how the drivers/media/dvb/frontends/at76c651.c > > >driver would do anything inside kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. All it does is to > > >EXPORT_SYMBOL a function at76c651_attach that isn't used anywhere. > > > > > >Is a patch to remove this driver OK or did I miss anything? > > > > > > > > > > no, please let it there. This driver is the GPL'd part of the dbox2 > > driver which is not part of the official kernel tree. > > (Actually all dbox2 drivers are GPL-licensed, you can get them at > cvs.tuxbox.org) > > > Since frontend and demod drivers are reusable elsewhere and mainstream > > hardware that makes use of this demodulator may show up every week it's > > just stupid to remove this code as long we know it is working and > > continously tested by the dbox2 folks. > > > > Instead it may make sense to move the dbox2 sources into the mainstream > > source tree. Andreas, what do you think? > > It has been a long term goal since months, but I don't have the time for > it now. We are still waiting for mpc8xx to become stable in 2.6.
Are thre any news regarding merging code actually using at76c651.c?
> Regards, > Andreas
cu Adrian
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