Re: upgrading pentavalue drivers from 2.4 to 2.6

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

Henti Smith wrote:
> Hi guys, 
> 
> I have a client that uses pentavalue DVB-S cards pretty much all over
> their business, however the drivers has not been updated since 2002
> (2.4 kernel only) I've spoken to the dev's at the company and they are
> not interested in doing drivers for 2.6
> 
> The 2.4 drivers they released is source code format, however I could
> not find any clear indication of licence agreements to use the code for
> further development. 
> 
> I'm hoping that it's GPL'ed since MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); appears in the
> pentadrv.c and scanval.c files
> 
> I'm going to contact them again to confirm we can use the code for
> 2.4 to upgrade to 2.6 and possible include in the kernel source (if it
> will be allowed :P) 
> 
> Lastly .. and the reason I'm mailing is .. I'm looking for somebody
> that is keen on  doing the port .. I'll happily supply hardware (we
> have lots of these cards) 
> 
> beer or other incentives can be negotiated ;P 
> 
> Thanks :) 
> 

They are binary only drivers. I.e. A group of .o files with .c wrappers.
So no way to port them to 2.6

James