Staging submission: PCTV 80e and PCTV 74e drivers (was Re: Problems cloning the git repostories)

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Adding Cc: staging maintainer and mailinglist.

On Sep 26 Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <maurochehab@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Want to see more device support upstream?  Optimize the process to
> >> make it easy for the people who know the hardware and how to write the
> >> drivers to get code upstream, and leave it to the "janitors" to work
> >> out the codingstyle issues.
> >
> > The process you've just described exists already since Sept, 2008.
> > It is called:
> >        /drivers/staging
> >
> > In summary, if you don't have a couple hours to make your driver to
> > match Kernel Coding Style, just send it as is to /drivers/staging, c/c
> > me and Greg KH, and that's it.
> 
> PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-80e/
> PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102-2/
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> The harder you make it to get code upstream, the more developers who
> will just say "to hell with this".  And *that* is why there are
> thousands of lines of working drivers which various developers have in
> out-of-tree drivers.

Hi,

perhaps a kind developer over at devel@driverdev could extract patches for
staging out of the above mercurial repositories, and then folks can work
on mainline inclusion.  (Somebody who actually has such a device might be
most motivated to do it.)

No need to get angry that it hasn't happened yet. :-)  It's just a matter
of the right people joining the effort at the right time.

Thanks Devin for the offer,
-- 
Stefan Richter
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