Markus Rechberger schrieb:
On 10/11/07, Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Markus Rechberger a écrit :
On 10/11/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As such, the old and decrepit em28xx driver seems more useful to people,
since at least it supports the limited set of hardware on its own.
it does not since it's broken and feature limited. On the other side
I have a device which works perfectly with it if you add the vendor and
product ID to the list. I don't really call that broken. And it doesn't
need a firmware.
Aurelien,
the device you're using is around 2 years old. You're one of the lucky
ones, I have tonns of support mails in my mail account from people who
own almost a similar device but with different videodecoders which are
not fully supported in the kernel or which worked and got broken
during the time.
It took me around 4 hours to debug such an issue last years remotly
with an enduser (which includes that noone cared to ask me if I'm fine
with such an update, neither did someone ask people who own such
devices that they should test the changes).
Please also take other devices and upcoming devices into account,
since i'm willing to spend that time and since I'm in contact with
various companies who provide several components of those devices.
Please think that a lot of persons do not have enough knowledge to
compile out of tree drivers, and that a lot more do not even know about
this out of tree driver.
this is what all is about, the project does not depend on certain
broken drivers anymore. And people who initially disagreed without
having any solution nor contributed any code can continue to play
their game without having an impact on that driver anymore.
Markus
markus,
its the same old story you are telling over and over again.
of course there might be a huge community builded up the
last month @ mcentral,
of course your driver supports newer devices,
BUT
the same old story is - and you always miss that part
we discussed a lot on your changes and also ACCEPTED those
for merging, if you would have changed your UNNECCESSARY touching
of dvb-core. its proven that things could work without that
nacked change to dvb core. but, you decided to stop discussion then,
and went away to perform your own tree/userspace thing.
as linus and andrew stated within this thread they think they will not
merge your code like it is cause of different reasons,
i am wondering a bit whats your next step is.
regards
marcel
ps. as linus tells from time to time
"It's not just black and white - there's also grey"
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