Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:56:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities |
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Hi Helge and others,
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
>> what the consequence is. To be truthful I would strategically prefare a >> vacuum at the price that the work isn't even done for months. >> ONLY IF there is a personnel vacuum the necessity for others to volunteer >> will arise. >> > A sufficiently bad maintainer will also do it. If lots of submitters send > their patches to andrew in order to get past a dysfunctional maintainer, > then the subsystem effectively is unmaintained.
The point is that Uwe patch will generate regressions by breaking for Twinhan. His patch just removes compilation for dst and dst_ca on Kconfig, without taking care or driver internals. So, two initialization functions won't be called by symbol_request(). Although those two functions will be undefined, as the dvb will do the linkedition at module runtume (if DVB_ATTACH is selected), modprobe won't detect the lack of those functions. At the end, cards with ST chips (DST and/or DST CA) will stop working, without even printing a warning.
I've tried to explain this to Uwe several times, but, at the end, he always start insulting me and/or other developers.
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