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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:17:35 -0300
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with the v4l-dvb
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Em 04-03-2011 18:23, Greg KH escreveu:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:54:24PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Em 04-03-2011 14:13, Greg KH escreveu:
>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:39:05PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in
>>>> drivers/staging/Kconfig between commit
>>>> a1256092a1e87511c977a3d0ef96151cda77e5c9 ("[media] Altera FPGA firmware
>>>> download module") from the v4l-dvb tree and commit
>>>> 0867b42113ec4eb8646eb361b15cbcfb741ddf5b ("staging: gma500: Intel GMA500
>>>> staging driver") from the staging tree.
>>>>
>>>> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary.
>>>
>>> That looks correct.
>>>
>>> Mauro, what is this driver and why is it added to the staging tree?
>>
>> This driver implements the FPGA programming logic for a firmware required
>> by a DVB driver, and was proposed initially for 2.6.37 inclusion. During the
>> 2.6.38 development cycle, it suffered several revisions, based on our input
>> at the media and lkml mailing lists, where Igor fixed all CodingStyle issues.
>>
>> In the last minute, during 2.6.38 merge window, two developers (Laurent and Ben) 
>> [1] complained against adding a driver for loading FPGA firmware as-is. So, I
>> decided to add it, for now, at staging, to avoid needing to postpone a long series 
>> of patches again just because of that, especially since a series of DVB-C devices
>> are without support on Linux without this patch series, and there are very few
>> DVB-C devices currently supported.
>>
>> The Altera driver is compliant with CodingStyle, and, from my side, it is ok
>> to move it to drivers/others, but it doesn't hurt to give some time for Ben and 
>> Laurent to propose alternative way of implementing the firmware request logic.
>>
>> If nothing happens until 2.6.40 merge window, I think we should go forward and
>> move it to the proper place.
> 
> Ok, thanks, I'll defer any patches for this code to you.

Ok, thanks!
Mauro.
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