Hi Mauro, These days I am helping Hans Verkuil convert the last users of the legacy i2c device driver binding model to the new, standard binding model. It turns out to be a very complex task because the v4l-dvb repository is supposed to still support kernels as old as 2.6.16, while the initial support for the new i2c binding model was added in kernel 2.6.22 (and even that is somewhat different from what is upstream now.) This forces us to add quirks all around the place, which will surely result in bugs because the code becomes hard to read, understand and maintain. In fact, without this need for backwards compatibility, I would probably have been able to convert most of the drivers myself, without Hans' help, and this would already be all done. But as things stand today, he has to do most of the work, and our progress is slow. So I would like you to consider changing the minimum kernel version supported by the v4l-dvb repository from 2.6.16 to at least 2.6.22. Ideal for us would even be 2.6.26, but I would understand that this is too recent for you. Kernel 2.6.22 is one year and a half old, I honestly doubt that people fighting to get their brand new TV adapter to work are using anything older. As a matter of fact, kernel 2.6.22 is what openSUSE 10.3 has, and this is the oldest openSUSE product that is still maintained. I understand and respect your will to let a large range of users build the v4l-dvb repository, but at some point the cost for developers seems to be too high, so there's a balance to be found between users and developers. At the moment the balance isn't right IMHO. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare -- 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
