On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Uri Shkolnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Mauro, > > My name is Uri Shkolnik, I work at Siano Mobile Silicon as a software > architect. > > I tried to get in touch with you lately, but I had probably used the wrong > email address, so forgive me for contacting by replying to a post of yours to > the one of the LinuxTV mailing lists... > > Siano develops DTV chip-sets (multi-standards, multi-interfaces) which are > used by Siano's many customers and partners. > Couple of years ago, our Linux support was minimal, but that situation has > changed, and proximately a year ago, we started to get more an more demand > for Linux kernel support, and we started to offer a minimal set of drivers. > > At the beginning, we used the excellent services given to us by Michael > Krufky, and actually everything we want to publish went through him. > > Recently, the number of Siano-based Linux projects and products increased > significantly. > > With the fast growing number of customers and projects, the number of > additional interfaces, DTV standards and changes fast growth we needed a > different approach. > > On mid-November, we took the second approach which is suggested at the > README.patches file, and submitted the patches to the linux-dvb mailing list, > till today, except some people who took those patches and apply them locally > on their systems, nothing has been done with those patches, and the main > mercurial tree has not been updated with them. > > The current state is that a huge gap has been opened between the LinuxTV > repository (and from it to the Linux kernel git) offering and what we have at > Siano. > > We would like to close this gap ASAP and maintain an on-going, easy > synchronizing process. > > It seems that the best method to archive this goal is to have maintainer > permissions on media/dvb/siano directory.
Thank you for your email, Uri. First off, I'd like to thank Uri and Siano Mobile Silicon for their ongoing involvement and contributions to the DVB subsystem of the Linux kernel. I've been very busy lately, and haven't had as much time to have the same presence on the mailing lists as I had in the past. Nonetheless, I am still rather actively working within the v4l-dvb development tree. Uri has sent a patch series to me already a few weeks ago. I haven't yet checked the series that he sent this morning, to see whether or not these are the same patches that I already have. I am already in the process of reviewing the patch series, and it might take two weeks or so before I will be able to post a merged tree with feedback. Please be patient, Uri -- We want to keep the code in sync with the Siano code as much as possible. Please just understand that the review / testing / merge process takes some time. I will be in touch again shortly. Best Regards, Mike Krufky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
