Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:22:40 +0200 | From | Aurelien Jarno <> | Subject | Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24 |
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Markus Rechberger a écrit : > On 10/11/07, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote: >> Markus Rechberger a écrit : >>> On 10/11/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >>>> As such, the old and decrepit em28xx driver seems more useful to people, >>>> since at least it supports the limited set of hardware on its own. >>> it does not since it's broken and feature limited. On the other side >> I have a device which works perfectly with it if you add the vendor and >> product ID to the list. I don't really call that broken. And it doesn't >> need a firmware. >> > > Aurelien, > > the device you're using is around 2 years old. You're one of the lucky > ones, I have tonns of support mails in my mail account from people who > own almost a similar device but with different videodecoders which are > not fully supported in the kernel or which worked and got broken > during the time. > It took me around 4 hours to debug such an issue last years remotly > with an enduser (which includes that noone cared to ask me if I'm fine > with such an update, neither did someone ask people who own such > devices that they should test the changes). > Please also take other devices and upcoming devices into account, > since i'm willing to spend that time and since I'm in contact with > various companies who provide several components of those devices. >
I agree I am lucky, but the fact is that the in-kernel driver supports *some* devices, and *works* correctly for them. On the other side, your driver supports more devices, but it is and *out-of-tree* driver.
Please either work to get your change merged, or stop complaining about changes done to the in-kernel driver.
Moreover if you get a closer look at v4l-dvb git, you will see that the changes proposed by Mauro are not em28xx specific, and is actually the same change done on a lot of of v4l/dvb drivers.
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