From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:64189 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757445Ab0EMSp6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:58 -0400 Received: by gwj19 with SMTP id 19so781484gwj.19 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 11:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BEC48DF.8060900@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:45:51 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hermann pitton CC: Sander Pientka , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Douglas Landgraf Subject: Re: Mercurial x git tree sync - was: Re: Remote control at Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner References: <1266375385.3176.5.camel@pc07.localdom.local> <1266445236.7202.17.camel@pc07.localdom.local> <4BEAFA76.5070809@redhat.com> <1273721312.10695.12.camel@pc07.localdom.local> <4BEB84F5.5030506@redhat.com> <1273736253.3197.71.camel@pc07.localdom.local> <4BEBF165.4070603@redhat.com> <1273772767.3195.21.camel@pc07.localdom.local> <4BEC432D.5010501@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4BEC432D.5010501@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > hermann pitton wrote: > >>> My view is that the backport tree is very useful to have a broader number >>> of people testing V4L/DVB code, as it can be applied against legacy kernels. >>> Of course, for this to work, people should quickly fix broken backports >>> (that means that not only Douglas should work on it, but other developers >>> are welcomed to contribute with backport fixes). >> For now, if not using git, Sander needs a 2.6.33 with recent v4l-dvb >> then to provide relevant debug output and eventually patches. > > Until Douglas or someone fix the breakages with older kernels, yes. As the fix patch is really trivial, I found a couple of minutes to write a patch for fixing this issue. I haven't test the patch, but, as it uses the same backport logic as found at cx2355-ir, I don't expect much troubles on it. -- Cheers, Mauro