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

[Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>]

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 No, it should support the Terratec hardware as well but it's outdated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