From: Oliver Schinagl <oliver+list@schinagl.nl>
To: Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
Cc: Martin Vidovic <xtronom@gmail.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
o.endriss@gmx.de
Subject: Re: ddbridge v0.8
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:24:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511E4503.3030300@schinagl.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20766.15478.535523.4665@morden.metzler>
On 15-02-13 14:47, Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Oliver Schinagl writes:
> > On 02/11/13 23:20, Martin Vidovic wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there any plan to include ddbridge driver version 0.8 in mainline kernel
> > > (currently it's 0.5). I really see no reason it's in the vacuum like now
> > > for almost a year. No sign of pushing it into mainline. Why is that so?
> > > It's a good driver.
> > You should ask Ralph Metzler (added to CC) as he wrote the driver I
> > think or atleast maintains it.
>
> I wrote the driver but I never submitted it to the kernel myself. I got frustrated
> with that process years ago. Oliver Endriss took care of it and necessary coding style
> adjustments etc. in the last few years. (Many thanks again!)
> But now he also stopped to pass it into the kernel due to some complications
> with other changes upstream.
>
> I usually distribute a package with own versions of dvb-core, frontend and
> ddbridge drivers now. When the next major restructuring due to the DVB-C modulator
> card and the stand-alone hardware network streamer (octopus net) support is done,
> I will make it publically available. The current driver is version 0.9.7.
> It should be up to kernel coding style and can be easily copied over into
> a current kernel. But I am not about to take it apart into little patches.
But do you have any problems with it being mainlined? If someone would
take your newest version and work with Mauro/Oliver to mainline it?
What would be your ETA? weeks? months? end of the year?
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-11 22:20 ddbridge v0.8 Martin Vidovic
2013-02-13 21:20 ` Oliver Schinagl
2013-02-15 13:47 ` Ralph Metzler
2013-02-15 14:24 ` Oliver Schinagl [this message]
2013-02-15 14:35 ` Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
2013-04-01 10:08 ` Oliver Schinagl
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