Re: [GIT PULL for 2.6.38-rc2] V4L/DVB patches

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 31-01-2011 18:55, Patrick Boettcher escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
> 
> On Friday 21 January 2011 14:17:09 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Linus,
>>
>> Em 20-01-2011 15:01, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
>>> Hi Linus,
>>>
>>> Those are some changes that I tried to prepare to send you during the
>>> merge window, but, unfortunately, the new videobuf2 driver took me a
>>> longer time to review/test than I originally expected.
>>>
>>> Please pull from:
>>>   ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git
>>>   v4l_for_linus
>>
>> Please, don't pull yet. There are some changesets that have some
>> weird stuff, like this:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/bridges/Module.symvers
>> b/drivers/staging/vme/bridges/Module.symvers deleted file mode 100644
>> index e69de29..0000000
>>
>> I have no idea why those things appeared, as I never handled any patch
>> that touched inside drivers/staging/vme. I need to further investigate
>> the entire patchset and see if other weird stuff happened there.
>>
>> I'll send you another pull request after fixing those things.
> 
> Do you think those changesets will make it into 2.6.38 at some point? I'm 
> asking because this is where the technisat-driver is currently residing on his 
> way into the kernel.  I understand that there is a problem in this branch, but 
> still I'd like to see the technisat-usb2 being merged.
> 
> I'm getting a little bit desperate. :-(
> 
> Can I do something to help?

Sent a new pull request today. Linus was at LCA last week. So, I opted
to wait for his return before re-sending this series.

Thanks,
Mauro