Re: [PATCH] [media] dabusb: Move it to staging to be deprecated

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On 12/29/10 11:37 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 20:10:17 Felipe Sanches wrote:
Wait!

It supports the DRBox1 DAB sold by Terratec:
http://www.baycom.de/wiki/index.php/Products::dabusbhw

No, it doesn't. The driver in the kernel only supports the prototype board.
The driver on baycom.de *does* support the Terratec product, but that's not
in the kernel.
No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated and unstable. Therefor I agreed to remove the driver from the current kernel as I am not willing to continue support for the code.

I've been working on a free firmware for this device:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:USB_DABUSB

I don't mind having support for DAB in the kernel, but any DAB API needs to
be properly discussed, designed and documented. And it should probably be a
part of the V4L2 API (since that already supports analog radio and RDS).

By removing this driver from the kernel we open the way for a new DAB API
without breaking support for any existing end-users since the current driver
doesn't support any sold products.

Frankly, I'm quite interested to see support for this and I'd be happy to
work with someone on designing an API for it. Sounds interesting :-)
Attached to this mail you will find our latest sources of the dabusb driver and the 8051 code running on the DR-Box 1 itself. Feel free to continue development or to forget about everything.

Merry X-Mas...

Deti

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