Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756039AbXJKGIl (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:08:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753698AbXJKGIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:08:34 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.38.19]:55605 "EHLO hall.aurel32.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753887AbXJKGIc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:08:32 -0400 Message-ID: <470DBDC7.8000304@aurel32.net> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:07 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno User-Agent: IceDove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070328) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Rechberger CC: Linus Torvalds , 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 References: <1192053794.15601.47.camel@gaivota> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1413 Lines: 31 Markus Rechberger a ?crit : > On 10/11/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> 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. > > it does not since it's broken and feature limited. On the other side I have a device which works perfectly with it if you add the vendor and product ID to the list. I don't really call that broken. And it doesn't need a firmware. Please think that a lot of persons do not have enough knowledge to compile out of tree drivers, and that a lot more do not even know about this out of tree driver. > it requires a firmware from userspace too so I don't think it matters > at all if the algorithm is done in kernelspace or userspace since it > depends on such a blob (and I cannot get the source for that firmware, > if someone's interested in that he has to disassemble the firmware). > -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net - 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/