Subject: Re: Ho ho ho.. Linux 2.6.15-rc7
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:14:52 -0500
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On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 10:02 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>    I've visiting at my parents house and gave 2.6.15-rc7 a try on my
> dad's machine. This machine is his normal desktop box which I
> administer remotely, as well as a MythTV server. The new kernel built
> and booted fine. I then built the NVidia stuff. However when I tried
> to build the ivtv driver from portage it failed:

There's nothing the kernel developers can do about regressions in out of
tree modules - there is no stable kernel module API so the authors of
that module will have to fix it.

Any idea why the IVTV module has not been submitted for mainline?

Lee

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