On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:09:47 +0200 "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:39 +0200 > > "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please don't send 900 line emails to which you have added only an additional > > paragraph. > > > > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-core.c | 1 - > > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-input.c | 1 - > > > > drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 6 +- > > > > > > not accepted > > > > Until your attempt to get the userspace-driver work merged into the kernel > > is successful (and from my reading of last month's discussion it is nowhere > > near that), we should continue to maintain the present driver. > > > > If you choose to not participate in that maintenance then others will need > > to do their best in this regard. > > > > What we should not and will not do is to permit the current driver to be > > held hostage to your attempt to force a controversial and apparently > > unwelcome change into the tree. > > > > It makes no sense to keep the kernel driver uptodate, It makes heaps of sense to keep the in-tree driver up to date if the out-of-tree driver is unmergeable, which appears to be the case. > it would make > more sense to support the latest driver (which some people are > supporting). But that ignores all of last month's discussion and the various reservations which various people have expressed. Please take my advise, based upon my experience in kernel development: I don't expect that we'll be merging the mcentral.de driver in anything like its present form. So we must continue to maintain and evolve the kernel.org driver. > I just had a look at the driver downloads it makes around 600 > downloads for september for this driver. If someone's interested in > those stats I can give access to it privatly. > The current option for people who own such a device is to take the > driver from mcentral.de. Well that's a shame. But we have n,000 drivers in-tree which work OK without doing unusual and disturbing user/kernel splits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
