Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753101AbYKAQ11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbYKAQ1T (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:27:19 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:37624 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbYKAQ1S (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:27:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=I7gXAU4Rsb2nqgT0HZRddPvFyfEbsylJo5950XcZOcNi/rmuMaJ5ANHZ1Gjp50fjZQ 5THj9YsnUa1lJByN5YaZs9FqPAmGEPVEIwS6/DwfMH5hcwsK3E9wk5qs36cbvVPEc/vS tnkf774qg8ewDfAsQCR71W+7C2pQ4rjaleexc= Message-ID: <84144f020811010927o2d006058t89ba64363567ecc5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:27:17 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Hans Verkuil" Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver Cc: "Devin Heitmueller" , "Markus Rechberger" , v4l , linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , em28xx In-Reply-To: <200811011721.46016.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811011505.51716.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <412bdbff0811010846h2edd63bfn44536e8a1c72d17f@mail.gmail.com> <200811011721.46016.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2a0ae63dab6e42c7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 15 On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > At this time I do not advocate replacing the current em28xx driver. But > when they are both in the kernel, then I expect and hope that the best > features of the em28xx driver are merged into the empia driver and that > the current em28xx driver can eventually be dropped. We've done that many times and it usually ends up with us dragging the old driver along for a very long time (look at the eepro100 driver removal as an example). So you really want to just incrementally fix up em28xx driver to avoid a mess. -- 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/