Thank you for the comments and pointers. I am happy, at least there are peoples who want to see the xc4000 driver alive. On 2011-06-02, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em 02-06-2011 12:53, Mohammad Bahathir Hashim escreveu: >> Now I understood how thing works here, and it clear to me, why the >> xc4000 driver is not being included in mainline V4L2. >> >> It will be lots of commitments and hard work to be the maintainer, and >> I respect Mr. Devin's choice and decisions. There are several peoples >> that are interested in this driver, such as Mr. Istvan. I realized >> this driver does not have huge users/audiences, but still there are >> peoples who really need it. But, yeah, not everybody can 'port' the >> driver each time Linux kernel or V4L2 version being updated. >> >> In this case, IF no one is able to maintains the driver, how others >> can benefit the 'updated' driver or patches for the new V4L2 or Linux >> releases? >> > > Out of tree drivers tend to become obsolete on a few kernel releases, as the > internal kernel API's were not designed to be stable, as we want innovation > inside the kernel. So, people are free to change the internal APIs when > needed. > > That's why the best way is to submit patches upstream as they're ready > for it. > >> At the moment I still be able to port and test it for my private use. >> Sometime I sent the patches to Mr. Istvan to be included in his >> xc4000 driver's website, for other users to use it. >> >> BTW, I am not a programmer. I am just a system administrator, who only >> like to use shell scripts, awk, sed and grep. I only know how 'read' C, >> and can do SIMPLE 'porting' and testing tasks :). Still I really hope >> other developers able to include the analog TV/FM tuning and S-Video input >> feature to PCTV-340e. >> >> Anyway, if this driver is not elligible to be included in V4L2 >> mainline, I know where to 'push' my patches. :) > > Almost all drivers are eligible to be included, but the author needs to > submit them, or someone on their behalf. If the driver doesn't have enough > quality or needs some fixes, the submitter may need to fix it or, eventually, > move it to staging. > > With respect to xc4000, we need someone to test if the driver works after > the backports. Please test it and answer to us with a "Tested-by" tag. > > After the tests, it would be great to apply any pending patches for xc4000 > before cleaning it, as if we do the reverse, existing patches won't apply. > > 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
