Hi Helge and others,
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
what the consequence is. To be truthful I would strategically prefare a
vacuum at the price that the work isn't even done for months.
ONLY IF there is a personnel vacuum the necessity for others to volunteer
will arise.
A sufficiently bad maintainer will also do it. If lots of submitters send
their patches to andrew in order to get past a dysfunctional maintainer,
then the subsystem effectively is unmaintained.
The point is that Uwe patch will generate regressions by breaking for
Twinhan. His patch just removes compilation for dst and dst_ca on Kconfig,
without taking care or driver internals. So, two initialization functions
won't be called by symbol_request(). Although those two functions will be
undefined, as the dvb will do the linkedition at module runtume (if
DVB_ATTACH is selected), modprobe won't detect the lack of those functions.
At the end, cards with ST chips (DST and/or DST CA) will stop working,
without even printing a warning.
I've tried to explain this to Uwe several times, but, at the end, he
always start insulting me and/or other developers.
Cheers,
Mauro.
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