Hans, On 16-01-2023 10:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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.
This being the case (from another user), should those drivers be deprecated? Cheers Rudy
