On Saturday 20 August 2005 18:22, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Saturday 20 August 2005 12:03 pm, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 August 2005 17:55, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 August 2005 03:14 am, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > It's a bug I've introduced when I updated with the v4l tveeprom to keep
> > > > the indices in sync. Will be repaired in 0.3.7g, and I've posted a
> > > > patch for the v4l tveeprom to add these missing tuner mappings.
> > >
> > > Speaking of all this, why are separate tuner/etc modules still being
> > > maintained by this project?
> >
> > Because many of the newer tuners are not available in older kernels, or
> > even very new kernels. The PVR cards seem to switch to different tuner
> > models about once a week :-)
>
> And this prevents merging stuff in to the official kernel because...? I
> really don't get it. Just tell people to use whatever version of the kernel
> has support if they want their hardware supported.
>
> This strange insistence on maintaining a separate set of identically named,
> incompatible modules just causes tons of problems for users. Even just
> distributing a patch against the kernel for those modules would be better
> than the current situation.
It's not my idea! It's what I'm trying to resolve by getting all relevant
changes into the v4l kernel stuff so that we can nuke all this.
Hans
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