Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756173AbXJKFJ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752970AbXJKFJt (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:09:49 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:34975 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752946AbXJKFJs (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:09:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U4kUOc5PJLyNwN7+kzee2larPsACtv5en/Jv3v2KP3EZgBIF0GR0CaiMDC4CxOgnDoaiyfRyp1gCKmzLsZ4AgyMwPR+8muKBctGdehbmddYtDnn0wFHJjhucWktBCCehka7u7TCRpO79asT1J79v7WR7KlcecU8b56BNLyETXrE= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:09:47 +0200 From: "Markus Rechberger" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24 Cc: mchehab@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20071010163625.b4b438ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1192053794.15601.47.camel@gaivota> <20071010163625.b4b438ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1656 Lines: 40 On 10/11/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:39 +0200 > "Markus Rechberger" wrote: > > Please don't send 900 line emails to which you have added only an additional > paragraph. > > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-core.c | 1 - > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-input.c | 1 - > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 6 +- > > > > not accepted > > Until your attempt to get the userspace-driver work merged into the kernel > is successful (and from my reading of last month's discussion it is nowhere > near that), we should continue to maintain the present driver. > > If you choose to not participate in that maintenance then others will need > to do their best in this regard. > > What we should not and will not do is to permit the current driver to be > held hostage to your attempt to force a controversial and apparently > unwelcome change into the tree. > It makes no sense to keep the kernel driver uptodate, it would make more sense to support the latest driver (which some people are supporting). I just had a look at the driver downloads it makes around 600 downloads for september for this driver. If someone's interested in those stats I can give access to it privatly. The current option for people who own such a device is to take the driver from mcentral.de. Markus - 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/