On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:53:42 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17.01.2009 06:51, user.vdr wrote: > > I think it's a lame idea to clump all media related stuff into one > > mailing list from separate ml's because 1) it's too general of a topic > > and 2) those ml's already had a lot of activity on their own. The > > idea of sifting through tons of posts of no interest is quite a hassle > > to say the least. This "solution" just doesn't seem very well thought > > out imo but it is what it is I guess. > > I also don't like the high traffic on linux-media. linux-dvb was exactly > dedicated to DVB, and that's all that interests me. I'm not interested > in analog video or cameras or whatever stuff that's discussed on > linux-media. >From driver development POV, there's no sense of splitting analog and digital stuff. A large amount of drivers support both analog and digital API (bttv, cx88, saa7134, saa7146, pvrusb2, em28xx, cx18, cx23885...). With the previous situation, all discussions for those drivers would require cross-postings. This is bad, since developers needed to read the same message twice (or even three times, due to v4l-dvb-maintainers ML). So, their precious time that would otherwise be used in development were lost just to read the same message again and again. Also, if you look at the recent past posts on V4L ML, several of them are related to DVB stuff.There were several cross-postings there as well. I can't see a clear solution to reduce the traffic on linux-media. We could eventually think on having some per-driver ML's, but I'm afraid that this wouldn't work nice... For example, an issue on an saa7134 driver with xc3028 should be posted at saa7134 or at xc3028 ML? Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
