Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH] b2c2: make front-ends selectable and include noob option

[Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>]

Am Dienstag Dezember 6 2005 22:56 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > Well, I said it needed touch up. ;-) After all I didn't seriously believe
> > it gets merged in current state (and yes, I didn't think about the module
> > issue, but you're right , of course). But it simply didn't seem like dvb
> > guys are caring about the problem. I once (probably half a year ago
> > already) mailed to linux-dvb and got zero response. That told me
> > everything.
>
> I make it a point to ignore postings which ignore
> the recent mailing list history ;-)
>
> This had been discussed on linux-dvb and the consensus was that
> no one wants to invest time to maintain an #ifdef mess
> just so that people can save a few KB in their kernel.

A short "search the list" note would have been enough, then. I think I 
followed the list, but probably skipped the messages, as the subject probably 
seemed like something else.


> Also, most users don't know and don't care what demodulator
> their card has, the dependency on all of them, plus the
> implied auto probing saves them some headaches and us a lot of
> newbie questions.


Well, could you be so nice and at least turn that xfer transfer errors and 
similar off? I guess that should be debugging output, but only printed when 
you actually want debugging and shouldn't be default behaviour. Does't this 
confuse users? It at least always draws my attention...

bye,
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