Re: [PATCH] [media] dabusb: Move it to staging to be deprecated

[Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>]

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On 12/29/10 11:37 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 20:10:17 Felipe Sanches wrote:
>> Wait!
>>
>> It supports the DRBox1 DAB sold by Terratec:
>> http://www.baycom.de/wiki/index.php/Products::dabusbhw
>
> No, it doesn't. The driver in the kernel only supports the prototype board.
> The driver on baycom.de *does* support the Terratec product, but that's not
> in the kernel.
No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated 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've been working on a free firmware for this device:
>> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:USB_DABUSB
>
> I don't mind having support for DAB in the kernel, but any DAB API needs to
> be properly discussed, designed and documented. And it should probably be a
> part of the V4L2 API (since that already supports analog radio and RDS).
>
> By removing this driver from the kernel we open the way for a new DAB API
> without breaking support for any existing end-users since the current driver
> doesn't support any sold products.
>
> Frankly, I'm quite interested to see support for this and I'd be happy to
> work with someone on designing an API for it. Sounds interesting :-)
Attached to this mail you will find our latest sources of the dabusb 
driver and the 8051 code running on the DR-Box 1 itself. Feel free to 
continue development or to forget about everything.

Merry X-Mas...

Deti

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