Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756746AbXJKHLW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:11:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753055AbXJKHLO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:11:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58008 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753280AbXJKHLN (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:11:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:11:00 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Markus Rechberger Cc: Andrew Morton , mchehab@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24 Message-ID: <20071011071100.GA28382@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Markus Rechberger , Andrew Morton , mchehab@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1192053794.15601.47.camel@gaivota> <20071010163625.b4b438ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 32 On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:09:47AM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: > 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. 600 downloads a month may seem like a lot to you for one driver. But think about how many people are running distribution kernels rather than kernels they built themselves. Typically none of these people will even know your driver exists, let alone go running after it to download/build it. >From an end-user perspective, out of tree drivers are a nuisance. Time and time again, I get bug reports from users claiming some bug is in the kernel, where the problem is actually that they're running some out of tree driver that hasn't been updated to run on the latest kernels. It's really in everyones (including yours) best interests to get drivers merged into mainline. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/