From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:44407 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255Ab0L2Lfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:35:50 -0500 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so10378032fxm.19 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:35:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1B1D11.6030505@fliegl.de> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:35:45 +0100 From: Deti Fliegl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Verkuil CC: Felipe Sanches , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] dabusb: Move it to staging to be deprecated References: <4D19037B.6060904@redhat.com> <201012291137.49153.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4D1B1532.60606@fliegl.de> <201012291224.25864.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <201012291224.25864.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab On 12/29/10 12:24 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated >> and unstable. Therefor I agreed to remove the driver from the current >> kernel as I am not willing to continue support for the code. > > I don't think it supports the Terratec hardware since the list of USB ids > doesn't include the Terratec products: Yes you are right - there you see - our driver is quite different - out latest changes are of october 2010 - and the kernel driver is somehow stone aged. > Unless someone will pick up this source code and starts to work with us on > designing an API it will probably be forgotten :-( > > As far as I can tell (please correct me if I am wrong) the hardware either no > longer available or very hard to get hold off. The product has been discontinued a couple of years ago. AFAIK about 50k to 100k pieces have been sold. > I did see that Terratec still sells some DAB receivers, but they are all based > on different hardware. Yes you are right. We currently do not develop any DAB products and I don't think there will be DAB Linux support from other companies. DAB and even DAB+ is dead. Deti