Re: RFC: removal of dabusb driver from Linux Kernel

2010-12-27 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 27-12-2010 17:49, Deti Fliegl escreveu: > Hello, > > sorry for not answering in time. Please feel free to remove this piece of > unusable code from the kernel. Hi Deti, Thanks for your answer. I'll be moving it to staging and scheduling its removal on 2.6.39. If you have instead an update f

Re: RFC: removal of dabusb driver from Linux Kernel

2010-12-27 Thread Deti Fliegl
Hello, sorry for not answering in time. Please feel free to remove this piece of unusable code from the kernel. Deti On 12/27/2010 04:39 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Hi, I'm responsible for the multimedia support at Linux Kernel. I tried to contact the authors of the DABUSB driver back

Re: RFC: removal of dabusb driver from Linux Kernel

2010-12-27 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi, I'm responsible for the multimedia support at Linux Kernel. I tried to contact the authors of the DABUSB driver back in september some time ago without any luck. We're considering the removal of dabusb driver from Linux Kernel, due to a few reasons: 1) The driver is for an engineering sampl

RFC: removal of dabusb driver from Linux Kernel

2010-09-19 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Deti and Georg, The dabusb driver at the Linux kernel seems to be pretty much unmaintained. Since 2006, when I moved it to /drivers/media, I received no patches from the driver authors. All the patches we've got since then were usual trivial fixes and a few other drivers correcting some core