Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 10/22/10 9:02 AM, Daniel Lee Kim wrote: > >> One more question, is there a place I can go to learn how to compile just the >> cx23885.ko module? I am not able to compile only that module and so I have to >> wait until it compiles all the modules. I apologize as this is my first time >> tweaking a driver module. I've searched all over the net but have not found >> anyone who wrote about this. Thanks, > > The wiki at linuxtv.org should contain everything you need for > compiling, modifying and submitting patches. It should, but it does not. Following the path from www.linuxtv.org => V4L-DVB Wiki => Developer Section => How to submit patches you end up at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_submit_patches which states 'For V4L-DVB driver modules and/or documentation, patches should be created against the master V4L-DVB mercurial tree; for instructions on obtaining and building these sources, see the "How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers" article.' and the "How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers" article contains more of the same outdated information, with its references to to 2.6.16 backwards compatibility and Mercurial. For a new developer coming from the outside, this is worse than not having any information at all. Anyone reading this list will know that the above quote is plain misleading. But as a new developer you have no way to know whether other information in the same page, or even the whole Wiki, is just as misleading. So you cannot trust any of it. Making the Wiki useless. Never write documentation you do not plan to keep updated. Delete outdated documentation if you don't have time/resources to update it. Misleading documentation is much, much worse than no documentation. BjÃrn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
