On 02.12.2017 20:49, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:51:16 +0000 > Jemma Denson <jdenson@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >> Hi Mauro, >> >> On 27/11/17 11:24, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Em Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:28:37 +0100 >>> Tycho Lürsen <tycholursen@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: >>> >>>> Hi Mauro, >>>> >>>> afaik the last communication about submission of this driver was about >>>> two months ago. >>>> >>>> This driver is important to me, because I own several TurboSight cards >>>> that are saa716x based. I want to submit a patch that supports my cards. >>>> Of course I can only do so when you accept this driver in the first place. >>>> >>>> Any chance you and Sören agree about how to proceed about this driver >>>> anytime soon? >>> If we can reach an agreement about what should be done for the driver >>> to be promoted from staging some day, I'll merge it. Otherwise, >>> it can be kept maintained out of tree. This driver has been maintained >>> OOT for a very long time, and it seems that people were happy with >>> that, as only at the second half of this year someone is requesting >>> to merge it. >>> >>> So, while I agree that the best is to merge it upstream and >>> address the issues that made it OOT for a long time, we shouldn't >>> rush it with the risk of doing more harm than good. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mauro >> Would I be correct in thinking the main blocker to this is the *_ff features >> used by the S2-6400 card? There's plenty of other cards using this chipset >> that don't need that part. >> >> Would a solution for now to be a driver with the ff components stripped out, >> and then the ff API work can be done later when / if there's any interest? > Works for me. In such case (and provided that the driver without *_ff are > in good shape), we could merge it under drivers/media (instead of merging > it on staging). All the entries in the TODO file are not specific for saa716x_ff. >> I guess a problem would be finding a maintainer, I'm happy to put together >> a stripped down driver just supporting the TBS card I use (I already have >> one I use with dkms), but I'm not sure I have the time or knowledge of this >> chipset to be a maintainer. There is chipset specific stuff to fix, especially irq handling. > As we're talking more about touching at uAPI, probably it doesn't require > chipsed knowledge. Only time and interest on doing it. > > Please sync with Soeren. Perhaps if you both could help on it, it would > make the task easier. As I already wrote to different people off-list: I'm happy to support more cards with the saa7160 bridge and maintain these in this driver. As hobbyist programmer this of course makes no sense to me, if the hardware I own (S2-6400) is not supported. Regards, Soeren >> Unfortunately my workplace is phasing out >> these cards otherwise I'd try and get them to sponsor me rather than do it >> on my own time! > Yeah, getting sponsored to do it would make things easier. > > Thanks, > Mauro
