Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+w=401wt.eu-S1759607AbYJVWMp@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id S1759607AbYJVWMp (ORCPT <rfc822;w@1wt.eu>);
	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:45 -0400
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758241AbYJVWM2
	(ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing>);
	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:28 -0400
Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:49129 "EHLO coco.kroah.org"
	rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id S1751850AbYJVWM1 (ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:27 -0400
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:03 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       em28xx <em28xx@mcentral.de>, acano@fastmail.fm,
       Andre Kelmanson <akelmanson@gmail.com>,
       Bouwsma Barry <freebeer.bouwsma@gmail.com>,
       Dan Kreiser <kreiser@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
       Frank Neuber <fn@kernelport.de>,
       Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>,
       John Stowers <john.stowers.lists@gmail.com>,
       Lukas Kuna <lukas.kuna@evkanet.net>,
       Stefan Vonolfen <stefan.vonolfen@gmail.com>,
       Stephan Berberig <s.berberig@arcor.de>,
       Thomas Giesecke <thomas.giesecke@ibgmbh-naumburg.de>,
       Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>, Zhenyu Wang <zhen78@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver
Message-ID: <20081022220903.GA15278@kroah.com>
References: <d9def9db0810221414w5348acf3re31a033ea7179462@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <d9def9db0810221414w5348acf3re31a033ea7179462@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 866
Lines: 24

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:14:36PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
>     em2880-dvb:
>     * supporting the digital part of Empia based devices, which
> includes ATSC, ISDB-T and DVB-T

<snip>

Doesn't this driver duplicate some of the existing devices we already
support with the current in-kernel driver?  If so, why not just add the
new device support to the existing driver instead of duplicating
everything?

This is going to cause a big problem for distros as they will not know
which to enable, so they will probably just disable this one, which is
what I don't think you want to have happen :(

thanks,

greg k-h
--
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/