On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:59:17 +0100 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Markus, > > As promised I've done a review of your empia driver and looked at what > needs to be done to get it into the kernel. > > First of all, I've no doubt that your empia driver is better and > supports more devices than the current em28xx driver. I also have no > problem adding your driver separate from the current driver. It's been > done before (certain networking drivers spring to mind) and while > obviously not ideal I expect that the older em28xx driver can probably > be removed after a year or something like that. > > In my opinion it's pretty much hopeless trying to convert the current > em28xx driver into what you have. It's a huge amount of work that no > one wants to do and (in this case) with very little benefit. Of course, > Mauro has the final say in this. > Both upstream and the 4 duplicated drivers have similar functionality. Also, the upstream driver is actively maintained. So, there's no sense on accepting those duplicated drivers. Also, just replacing one existing driver by a newer one will cause regressions on some already fixed bugs and remove some improvements that the upstream driver suffered. If there's a bug or a lack of functionality on em28xx, cx25843, xc5000 or tuner-xc2028, it is just a matter of submitting patches fixing those bugs or adding newer features. Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
