Hi Jemma,
I'm with you: let's get merged at least something!
Did you find a maintainer for this driver?
I can do simple stuff like in my fork of Soeren Moch's repo, but thats
where it ends. I dont have the knowledge needed to maintain a driver.
I think that your proposal to use a stripped version of Luis Alves repo
is a no go, since it contains a couple of demod/tuner drivers that are
not upstreamed yet. That complicates the upstreaming process too much, I
think.
I used a stripped version of Soeren Moch's repo to prove its stability
instead, adding the drivers I need so I can test it. You can see what I
did at : https://github.com/bas-t/linux-saa716x/commits/for-media-stripped
This has been tested with linux 4.9.77, 4.14.14 and 4.15-rc8.
Works like a charm for me.
