Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755114AbYJVSkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:40:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754121AbYJVSjz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:39:55 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:22025 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751545AbYJVSjy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:39:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=BEFGSDSuH9I1jaClbRHL6KQXOo0HvgQnqD2J34OZLMDwwumkPXJ9Ke26EkKYlrrKTn zpyS7h9cq1JHtrmwhUpiIwRTS0sJU1QdrVxSpFvJ4jsfrggt8nRQHj618TsrZ/LnuQmY pwCSiYoZsVwj015wULfXpvvXr1LZiRa7JIK60= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:39:51 +0200 From: "Markus Rechberger" To: "Alex Riesen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] em28xx patches against the latest git tree Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , em28xx@mcentral.de, "Linux and Kernel Video" In-Reply-To: <20081022182924.GA4626@blimp.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <81b0412b0810221059w2e02b1c1ubd894b22f7991242@mail.gmail.com> <20081022182924.GA4626@blimp.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2497 Lines: 63 On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Alex Riesen wrote: > Markus Rechberger, Wed, Oct 22, 2008 20:10:49 +0200: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Alex Riesen wrote: >> > 2008/10/22 Markus Rechberger : >> >>> commit history is available at: >> >> http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/em28xx-new/shortlog >> >> >> > >> > There is already an Empia EM28XX driver in the official tree. If your driver >> > is based on it, could you point at the first commit in *your* tree at >> > mcentral.de which >> > corresponds to that driver? (if you do, your history can be moved into >> > central Git >> > repo completely, every commit of it) >> > >> >> The development has been split off for 3 years from the original >> repository. The internal driver differs alot. > > So it is more like a new driver. I tried merging them about half a > year ago (unsuccessfully, of course). In the end your driver worked > with that piece of hardware I have (it seem to produce an awful lot of > tracing though) and I stayed with it. > >> The driver has a long and rather bad history, which I'd like to avoid >> by using the different directory. > > You could submit patches depricating it. Does the old driver support > something yours does not? > There are some devices with a knob available that reading that register is currently not implemented in the newer driver, netBSD people figured out that interrupts are delivered when a key gets pressed (even on the remote control). This is a construction side at the moment and it should be changed to something appropriate like the netBSD people implemented. >> Some patches got ported from my repository into the kernel although >> most devices don't work at all with the current inkernel driver (eg. >> em2888, flash based, isdb-t, cx25843, some saa7114.. based devices). > > Mine (a Pinnacle-Apple-something, USB) does not work with it at all. > > There's one limitation I cut out the drx3975d (might re-add it within the next week to the git repository) I know this one is required for the Pinnacle 330e and an Hauppauge based device. If you have problems with your device please start a thread on the em28xx ML: http://mcentral.de/pipermail/em28xx/ regards, 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/