Re: rtl2832u support

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:15 +0100, Damjan Marion wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 21:26:13 Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Is there any special reason why driver for rtl2832u DVB-T receiver chipset is not included into v4l-dvb?
> >>> 
> >>> Realtek published source code under GPL:
> >>> 
> >>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Realtek");
> >>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for the RTL2832U DVB-T / RTL2836 DTMB USB2.0 device");
> >>> MODULE_VERSION("1.4.2");
> >>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately, in most cases much more is "required" than having a
> >> working driver under the GPL in order for it to be accepted upstream.
> >> In some cases it can mean a developer spending a few hours cleaning up
> >> whitespace and indentation, and in other cases it means significant
> >> work to the driver is required.
> >> 
> >> The position the LinuxTV team has taken is that they would rather have
> >> no upstream driver at all than to have a driver which doesn't have the
> >> right indentation or other aesthetic problems which has no bearing on
> >> how well the driver actually works.
> >> 
> >> This is one of the big reasons KernelLabs has tens of thousands of
> >> lines of code adding support for a variety of devices with many happy
> >> users (who are willing to go through the trouble to compile from
> >> source), but the code cannot be accepted upstream.  I just cannot find
> >> the time to do the "idiot work".
> > 
> > Bullshit. First of all these rules are those of the kernel community
> > as a whole and *not* linuxtv as such, and secondly you can upstream such
> > drivers in the staging tree. If you want to move it out of staging, then
> > it will take indeed more work since the quality requirements are higher
> > there.
> 
> 
> Do we have a common agreement that this driver can go to staging as-is?
> 
> If yes, I have patch ready, just need to know where to send it (It is around 1 MB).

I also bought that device few days ago.
Needless to say it works perfectly (better that in windows) with this
driver.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky