From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752870AbZIGXWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:22:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752718AbZIGXWC (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:22:02 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55688 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752597AbZIGXWB (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:22:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:21:34 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge Message-ID: <20090907202134.4feebe6f@caramujo.chehab.org> In-Reply-To: <20090903041429.GA29875@kroah.com> References: <20090903041429.GA29875@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:14:30 -0700 > - go7007. Ugh. Unless someone steps up now to take this over, > it's going to be removed in .33. There is no hardware made > with this anymore, and no specs around that I know of, and the > code isn't the nicest in the world. I think nobody will cry if you remove this one. This is an old hardware, and not manufactured anymore. The chipset of the compression hardware is obsolete and orphaned, as the audio/video unit were sold to another company. > - udlfb. Video over USB, it doesn't get anymore whacked than > that. This is still being developed but the developer doesn't > like to do incremental updates for some odd reason. Hopefully > he pops up again with an update. But for now, it is quite > workable for a number of developers. Is this a video streaming driver (like other V4L2 drivers) or a video adapter driver? Cheers, Mauro