From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp-gw4.li-life.net ([195.225.200.36]:56425 "EHLO SMTP-GW4.li-life.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753126AbaHAHjL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2014 03:39:11 -0400 Message-ID: <53DB43FE.2000308@kaiser-linux.li> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:38:38 +0200 From: Thomas Kaiser MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , Bjoern , Ralph Metzler CC: Linux Media Mailing List , Rudy Zijlstra Subject: Re: ddbridge -- kernel 3.15.6 References: <53C920FB.1040501@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> <53CAAF9D.6000507@kaiser-linux.li> <1406697205.2591.13.camel@bjoern-W35xSTQ-370ST> <21465.62099.786583.416351@morden.metzler> <1406868897.2548.15.camel@bjoern-W35xSTQ-370ST> <53DB20E4.7020803@unixsol.org> In-Reply-To: <53DB20E4.7020803@unixsol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/01/2014 07:08 AM, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > On 8/1/14 7:54 AM, Bjoern wrote: >> On Do, 2014-07-31 at 09:38 +0200, Ralph Metzler wrote: > >>> It is not like drivers are not available and supported, just >>> not in the mainline kernel tree. >> >> Right... and I hope that can be changed. I really really like the DD >> hardware I have, but always having to rebuild everything with a new >> kernel is just not my idea of how hardware should run in 2014 on Linux >> anymore. > > I have more than 30 ddbridge dvb-s devices and more than 30 dvb-c/t devices. > > The fact that the drivers are not in the main tree is the biggest problem > with these devices. The hardware is great (never had a problem with it) > but having to install experimental media build is just stupid. > > When I bought the devices I knew that the driver is not in the main tree > but I really hoped that this would change. Now 3 years later it is still > not the case. That's bullshit. > > Come on Digital Devices, you have the drivers, please, pretty please, submit > them upstream, go through the merge process and make us - our clients a > happy bunch. > > Like Bjoern said, it's 2014, you have the drivers, keeping them out > of main kernel and having your customers go through hoops to get them > working is not acceptable. > I would love to see the driver in the kernel mainline tree for the above mentioned reasons! Thomas