Em 27-03-2011 21:44, Ralph Metzler escreveu: > Hi, > > since I just saw cxd2099 appear in staging in the latest git kernel, a > simple question which has been pointed out to me before: > > Why is cxd2099.c in staging regarding the device name question? > It has nothing to do with the naming. It is not just because of naming. A NACK was given to it, as is, at: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg28004.html A previous discussion about this subject were started at: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg22196.html The point is that an interface meant to be used by satellite were used as a ci interface, due to the lack of handling independent CA devices. As there were no final decision about a proper way to address it, Oliver decided to keep it as-is, and I decided to move it to staging while we don't properly address the question, extending the DVB API in order to support independent CA devs. Having the driver at staging allow us to rework at the API and change the driver when API changes are done, without needing to pass through kernel process of deprecating old API stuff. Cheers, 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
