On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 13:03:22 Hans Verkuil wrote: > 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 No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated 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? Never mind, I missed the patch that moved it to staging. No point in doing anything more. 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
