Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code | From | Andreas Oberritter <> | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:11:08 +0100 |
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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.
Regards, Andreas
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