Hi Hans, I only learned about this yesterday, so I hope I'm not too late. Please don't do that. You're about to remove working drivers used by a lot of people. If you remove them from the Linux kernel, you will leave *lots* of DVB-C and DVB-S card users behind. They will update their TV recording machines to a newer system at one point and suddenly their ability to record from TV is gone forever. I'm personally affected by this as well. We're using a machine with four Technotrend S2-3200 Budget DVB-S2 cards for TV recordings using the VDR package. This card is apparently handled by the code under drivers/staging/media/deprecated/saa7146. If this code goes away, we will have to keep the machine running on an old kernel for a long time. I'm fortunate that I even learned about this developement, being a developer myself, but how's a normal user to know that a Linux driver they are using every day is about to be removed from the kernel? Again, please don't break the equipment of us users of these DVB-C and DVB-S cards for the future. Thanks for listening, Corinna
