Re: Ho ho ho.. Linux 2.6.15-rc7

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 10:02 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
>>Hi Linus,
>>   I've visiting at my parents house and gave 2.6.15-rc7 a try on my
>>dad's machine. This machine is his normal desktop box which I
>>administer remotely, as well as a MythTV server. The new kernel built
>>and booted fine. I then built the NVidia stuff. However when I tried
>>to build the ivtv driver from portage it failed:
> 
> 
> There's nothing the kernel developers can do about regressions in out of
> tree modules - there is no stable kernel module API so the authors of
> that module will have to fix it.
> 
> Any idea why the IVTV module has not been submitted for mainline?
> 
> Lee
> 

No idea. I even asked the IVTV developers mailing list some time ago 
trying to get them to include it in mainline, but they did not want to 
for some odd reason I could not work out.

Maybe someone else can kick them a little harder. :-)

James