Re: [PATCH 2/2] au0828: Move under dvb

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Em 12-05-2012 07:21, Devin Heitmueller escreveu:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 May 2012 08:04:59 -0400
>> Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ...
>>> What is the motivation for moving these files?
>>
>> Well, the device was on the wrong Kconfig section, and while thinking
>> about changing that, I just thought to move it under DVB.
>>
>>> The au0828 is a hybrid bridge, and every other hybrid bridge is
>>> under video?
>>
>> Sorry, the devices I got don't support analog, so I didn't thought
>> about it that much...
>>
>> I guess it's arbitrary... isn't it? wouldn't it be better to have an
>> hybrid section? (just thinking out loud)
> 
> Yeah, in this case it's largely historical (a product from before the
> V4L and DVB subsystems were merged).  At this point I don't see any
> real advantage to arbitrarily moving the stuff around.  And in fact in
> some areas it's even more ambiguous because some drivers are hybrid
> drivers but support both hybrid chips as well as analog-only (the
> em28xx driver is one such example).
> 
> Anyway, Mauro is welcome to offer his opinion if it differs, but as
> far as I'm concerned this patch shouldn't get applied.

I won't apply this patch.

If the Kconfig menus are confusing, then we should fix it, instead of moving
things from one place to another ;)

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Devin
> 

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