Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
We shouldn't drop support for a device just because the manufacturer doesn't
want it to be supported. If it really damages the hardware or violates the
warranty, then we can print a warning message clearly stating that the vendor
refuses to collaborate, briefly explaining the issues and recommending the user
to replace the device to some other from a vendor-friendly at dmesg, but keep
allowing they to use it, with some force option for people that wants to take
the risk.
I'm not going to go through the entire soap-opera as I know it, but
basically the manufacturer has 2 tiers of devices, those that were
designed to work only with a specific piece of hardware, and those that
are supported in Windows and Linux, but come with a significant price
premium. The latter devices are supported by the kernel and should be
continued to be. The former is what we're talking about and what my
patch removes support for. The patch was in response to real users with
real problems.
I am in no way associated with the manufacturer other than that he
provided me with initial help writing the Linux drivers several years
ago. I no longer have a use for the drivers myself, and any support I
do is just to help the community out. I have provided a patch which
makes the driver safe to use. If you prefer an alternate method of
achieving the same goal, or wish to just ignore it altogether, that is
ok, but I don't have the time to develop and test a patch that is more
complicated then what I've already posted. If you are going to take any
action, I would prefer it get pushed into the current kernel development
tree to minimize the potential harm to users.
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