Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757485AbXJJXn3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755415AbXJJXnV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:43:21 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:51316 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754583AbXJJXnV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:43:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Markus Rechberger cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, Andrew Morton , video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1192053794.15601.47.camel@gaivota> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 25 On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: > > the chances of the em28xx are not accepted from my side since the latest code > which supports way more hardware is offtree for various reasons. Well, I've talked to various people, and none of the main kernel people end up being at all interested in a kernel that has external dependencies on binary blobs for tuners. So right now it seems like while I would personally want to have more vendors supprt their own drivers, if that in this case means that we'd have to have user-space and unmaintainable binaries to tune the cards, everybody seems to hate that idea. As such, the old and decrepit em28xx driver seems more useful to people, since at least it supports the limited set of hardware on its own. Linus - 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/