Em Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:08:41 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@infradead.org> escreveu:
> I intend to add tm6000 driver there later this week, if time permits to port > it > to the new i2c interface. Ok, I've send part 1 of the patches I have here for tm6000. It still doesn't compile with kernel 2.6.30 or upper, due to the I2C API changes. I have still some other patches here pending, that are waiting for some time for testing them. I also intend to fix its compilation during this week. > The policy to accept new drivers code at staging tree is less rigid than > at /drivers/media: the kernel driver for an unsupported hardware shouldn't > depend on any userspace library other than libv4l and dvb-apps and the code > should compile fine with the latest kernel, and the developer(s) should be > working on fixing it for upstream inclusion. Drivers with bugs, CodingStyle > errors, deprecated API usage, etc can be accepted. Also, drivers there not > maintained for some time can be removed. >From some breakage reports with go7007 with some kernels and due to tm6000, I've added an option at Kconfig: STAGING_BROKEN, to indicate the drivers that are known to not compile against the latest kernel. However, there's a bad effect with this: those broken patches can't be updated upstream, otherwise they'll break upstream compilations. So, while we might eventually accept a broken driver at staging, a fix for it should be done quickly, to avoid causing upstream merging issues Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
