Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbVL1QL0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:11:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964856AbVL1QL0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:11:26 -0500 Received: from mx.laposte.net ([81.255.54.11]:11445 "EHLO mx.laposte.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbVL1QLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:11:25 -0500 Message-ID: <43B2B913.9090002@laPoste.net> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:10:59 +0100 From: Nicolas Mailhot User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Knecht CC: Lee Revell , markus.kossmann@inka.de, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Lee Revell , Michael Krufky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ho ho ho.. Linux 2.6.15-rc7 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 34 1. the latest and greatest ivtv is 0.5.x svn trunk 2. a week ago it still depended on some v4l cvs changes not merged upstream (ie could not build without a private v4l tree dump) 3. and it had firmware loading problems with the latest 2.6.15-rc git dumps 4. the merging process stalled considerably when the paken fork was discovered The root of the problem of course is ivtv developpers still haven't understood the "release early, release often" part and are aiming for a perfect (cleaned-up and feature-complete) driver before submitting it. Instead of merging everything now (experimental) and finishing the paken merge cleanup / inside the kernel. ivtv 0.5 is not even available as a kernel patchset, so you get the idea. ivtv writers would get a boatload of feedback if it behaved like any other kernel patchset. Now don't get me wrong, the ivtv people did and are doing a wonderful job driver-side, but they seriously need to learn to integrate in the kernel ecosystem. Someone wrote in the thread about the need to "kick" them a bit to make them understand this. I'm afraid this feeling is shared by a lot of other people. The low priority given to merging is real frustrating. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/