On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:26:34PM -0700, Aubin LaBrosse wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> <breaking threading so people wake up...> >> >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:48:53AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:18:32 -0700 >>> Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:36:30PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:41:26 -0700 >>>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ldp/video-add-the-go7007-driver.patch >>>>> >>>>> - This driver also needs a major rework. It has some duplicated drivers >>>>> (saa7134, saa7113, saa7115, ...), and still uses an old design. The >>>>> better is >>>>> to work tightly integrated with V4L/DVB development environment, to >>>>> allow >>>>> reusing the existing drivers. >>>>> >>>> This is an older driver for hardware not made anymore, but might be nice >>>> to get into the tree. It's my lowest priority right now. >>>> >>> I agree that it is interesting to merge it. But this will need someone >>> with enough >>> time to dedicate. Volunteers? >>> >> >> If anyone wants to help out with this, please take a look at the above >> patch and let me know. >> >> I'm swamped with other work in this tree, as well as getting wireless >> usb merged in, so am lacking in the time for this specific driver. >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> devel at linuxdriverproject.org >> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > well, i was just telling Mauro off-list that I was interested in getting > into V4L/DVB, but I don't have hardware to test. so if there's a sample > somewhere that can be mailed out, I'm game, else I'll have to take on one > of the "non-hardware" projects in V4L. also, I'm a kernel noob, so if you > don't think I can do it as a first project, I might have to pass (but I'm a > quick study, so I might be able to handle it - it'll be slow though - not > cause I don't have the time, but because I'll be learning the whole way) Working with existing code is much easier than starting from scratch. I would recommend taking the above patch, applying it, and then doing some small cleanups, like coding style fixes based on recommendations from running the scripts/checkpatch.pl script. Generate a patch for that and send it to me. That whole process will get you up and learning how the whole process works, and should be a great place to start. After that, we can move to more complex things that are needed for this driver, and ones that will require the hardware for testing (which I can send you.) If you have any questions about any of this, please let me know. thanks for offering to help, I really appreciate it. greg k-h
