Hi Sascha, > Can someone please summarize these flamewars and especially the remaining > problems?
Please, allow me to give my personal view about this. Markus tried hardly to force me to commit his big patch as-is, even with the risk of eventually breaking other other dvb drivers (In fact, it broke stv0297, as reported by Oliver). Due to the high risk of applying a 9000-line patch (his first trial) or even a 900-line patch (his last trial) that were changing the DVB core subsystem, I refused to commit his patch without the acks from the other dvb driver maintainers, since they would need to test the changes. Markus then re-addressed the issue speaking in the behalf of Empiatech. In general, it is a good idea to have the manufacturer supporting their drivers. However, it won't make any sense to allow Empiatech to touch on low-level drivers for hardware not developed by them. The original patches were touching on every DVB driver, even on some Empiatech competitors drivers. After some discussion with me and other core maintainers, Markus decided to re-base the driver in order to not touch the other maintained drivers. I don't have any news since them. -- Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
