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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


  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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