From: Joe Feise <jfeise@feise.com>
To: Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:30:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456BC973.1050309@feise.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061125191510.GB3702@stusta.de>
Adrian Bunk wrote on 11/25/06 11:15:
> The VIDEO_ZR36120 driver has:
> - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago 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.
>
> But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
> present in the older kernel releases.
Hmm, there are people out there (like me) who still use it and have patched it
to get it working on 2.6.x.
-Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-28 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-25 19:15 [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver Adrian Bunk
2006-11-26 13:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-11-28 5:30 ` Joe Feise [this message]
2006-11-28 6:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-28 6:36 ` Joe Feise
2006-11-28 9:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-11-28 19:11 ` Peter Schlaf
2006-11-28 21:38 ` Pauline Middelink
2006-11-29 18:30 ` Peter Schlaf
2006-11-28 10:27 ` Alan
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