From: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH] b2c2: make front-ends selectable and include noob option
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:29:24 +0100
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Am Dienstag Dezember 6 2005 22:56 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > Well, I said it needed touch up. ;-) After all I didn't seriously belie=
ve
> > it gets merged in current state (and yes, I didn't think about the modu=
le
> > issue, but you're right , of course). But it simply didn't seem like dvb
> > guys are caring about the problem. I once (probably half a year ago
> > already) mailed to linux-dvb and got zero response. That told me
> > everything.
>
> I make it a point to ignore postings which ignore
> the recent mailing list history ;-)
>
> This had been discussed on linux-dvb and the consensus was that
> no one wants to invest time to maintain an #ifdef mess
> just so that people can save a few KB in their kernel.

A short "search the list" note would have been enough, then. I think I=20
followed the list, but probably skipped the messages, as the subject probab=
ly=20
seemed like something else.


> Also, most users don't know and don't care what demodulator
> their card has, the dependency on all of them, plus the
> implied auto probing saves them some headaches and us a lot of
> newbie questions.


Well, could you be so nice and at least turn that xfer transfer errors and=
=20
similar off? I guess that should be debugging output, but only printed when=
=20
you actually want debugging and shouldn't be default behaviour. Does't this=
=20
confuse users? It at least always draws my attention...

bye,
=2D-=20
(=B0=3D                 =3D=B0)
//\ Prakash Punnoor /\\
V_/                 \_V

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