On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:35:45 Deti Fliegl wrote: > 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 No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated 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. I agree. Thank you for your help! Mauro, do you think we can remove it for 2.6.38 based on the information provided (i.e. that there is no commercial product that is supported by this driver), or do you want to deprecate it first and remove it in 2.6.39? Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- 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
