On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:11:08PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:36 +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > >I didn't find any way how the drivers/media/dvb/frontends/at76c651.c
> > >driver would do anything inside kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. All it does is to
> > >EXPORT_SYMBOL a function at76c651_attach that isn't used anywhere.
> > >
> > >Is a patch to remove this driver OK or did I miss anything?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > no, please let it there. This driver is the GPL'd part of the dbox2
> > driver which is not part of the official kernel tree.
>
> (Actually all dbox2 drivers are GPL-licensed, you can get them at
> cvs.tuxbox.org)
>
> > Since frontend and demod drivers are reusable elsewhere and mainstream
> > hardware that makes use of this demodulator may show up every week it's
> > just stupid to remove this code as long we know it is working and
> > continously tested by the dbox2 folks.
> >
> > Instead it may make sense to move the dbox2 sources into the mainstream
> > source tree. Andreas, what do you think?
>
> It has been a long term goal since months, but I don't have the time for
> it now. We are still waiting for mpc8xx to become stable in 2.6.
Are thre any news regarding merging code actually using at76c651.c?
> Regards,
> Andreas
cu
Adrian
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