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

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On 12/29/10 12:24 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated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 don't think it supports the Terratec hardware since the list of USB ids
> doesn't include the Terratec products:
Yes you are right - there you see - our driver is quite different - out latest changes are of october 2010 - and the kernel driver is somehow stone aged.

> Unless someone will pick up this source code and starts to work with us on
> designing an API it will probably be forgotten :-(
>
> As far as I can tell (please correct me if I am wrong) the hardware either no
> longer available or very hard to get hold off.
The product has been discontinued a couple of years ago. AFAIK about 50k to 100k pieces have been sold.

> I did see that Terratec still sells some DAB receivers, but they are all based
> on different hardware.
Yes you are right. We currently do not develop any DAB products and I don't think there will be DAB Linux support from other companies. DAB and even DAB+ is dead.

Deti
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