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From: Mich Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_PLANB driver
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:00:42 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.5fdfdb1db356c580@cpu.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1167946479.5273.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Adrian, hi Ben,

On   5 Jan, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through
cyberspace:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:53 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> The VIDEO_PLANB driver:
>> - has been marked as BROKEN for more than two years and
>> - is still marked as BROKEN.
>> 
>> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to
>> be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

I was waiting for this one :-) I have to admit I don't have the time to
work on this anymore, so either Ben can fix something, or I will sadly
add my s-o-b.

>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> 
> I suppose I could give it a go as I do have a machine with that
> hardware rusting somewhere... Don't remove it right away, I'll have a
> look.

If you need explanations about the code or the hardware, don't hesitate
to ask. Not sure what I still remember, but I still have my old paper
notes.

Cheers

Michel

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-04 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04 18:53 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_PLANB driver Adrian Bunk
2007-01-04 21:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-04 22:00   ` Mich Lanners [this message]
2007-01-04 22:35     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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