Em 23-10-2010 10:01, BjÃrn Mork escreveu: > 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 article contains more of the same outdated information, with its 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 outdated documentation if you don't have time/resources to update it.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. It is a wiki for a community effort. If you found it outdated, please help us on keeping it uptodated. Thanks, Mauro -- 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
