-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:56:17 +0100 (BST) Von: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> An: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities > Hi Helge and others, > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >> what the consequence is. To be truthful I would strategically prefare a > >> vacuum at the price that the work isn't even done for months. > >> ONLY IF there is a personnel vacuum the necessity for others to > volunteer > >> will arise. > >> > > A sufficiently bad maintainer will also do it. If lots of submitters > send > > their patches to andrew in order to get past a dysfunctional maintainer, > > then the subsystem effectively is unmaintained. > > The point is that Uwe patch will generate regressions by breaking for > Twinhan. His patch just removes compilation for dst and dst_ca on Kconfig, > without taking care or driver internals. So, two initialization functions > won't be called by symbol_request(). Although those two functions will be > undefined, as the dvb will do the linkedition at module runtume (if > DVB_ATTACH is selected), modprobe won't detect the lack of those > functions. > At the end, cards with ST chips (DST and/or DST CA) will stop working, > without even printing a warning. Mister Chehab, for the first and for the utmost last time now: My deselection patch implies a very good text to strongly discourage the use of DST and DST_CA in case someone does not know what he or she is doing. In so far the case that "cards with ST chips (DST and/ or DST CA) will stop working" will not happen at all. This patch IS NOT DONE TO MAKE ANY DST OR DST_CA MODULE REQUIRING CARD WORK - THIS IS YOUR PART OF SO-CALLED LOGIC!!!! THIS PATCH IS DONE TO AVOID RAM WASTE FOR CASES IN WHICH IT IS PROVEN THAT DST AND DST_CA ARE NOT NEEDED AT ALL!!!! Example: Pinnacle PCTV SAT!!! And once again and for the last time: I did not manage to at least find one single unresolved module during compilation, and I have been working with this almost fantastic solution with several kernels for months now! Above that I gave you every proof one can ever give: You received dmesg, you received configs, you received proven thesis, you received everything. It would really be a perfect solution to bomb away the almost incredible meters thick wall in front of your head and your eyes. And at this time I will stop responding to your mails - I got enough of you!!! It's enough!! > > I've tried to explain this to Uwe several times, but, at the end, he > always start insulting me and/or other developers. > > Cheers, > Mauro. Happy reflection, Mister Chehab!!!!! -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
