Re: Ho ho ho.. Linux 2.6.15-rc7

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@gmail.com>]

On 12/27/05, James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 10:02 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Linus,
> >>   I've visiting at my parents house and gave 2.6.15-rc7 a try on my
> >>dad's machine. This machine is his normal desktop box which I
> >>administer remotely, as well as a MythTV server. The new kernel built
> >>and booted fine. I then built the NVidia stuff. However when I tried
> >>to build the ivtv driver from portage it failed:
> >
> >
> > There's nothing the kernel developers can do about regressions in out of
> > tree modules - there is no stable kernel module API so the authors of
> > that module will have to fix it.
> >
> > Any idea why the IVTV module has not been submitted for mainline?
> >
> > Lee
> >
>
> No idea. I even asked the IVTV developers mailing list some time ago
> trying to get them to include it in mainline, but they did not want to
> for some odd reason I could not work out.
>
> Maybe someone else can kick them a little harder. :-)

Hehe... Please see the earlier messages in this thread... It is a
plan-in-motion.  Maybe for 2.6.17 or 2.6.18.  ...depending on some
other factors...

-Mike
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