From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:58114 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbeAYT5D (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:57:03 -0500 From: Soeren Moch Subject: Re: SAA716x DVB driver To: Jemma Denson , =?UTF-8?Q?Tycho_L=c3=bcrsen?= , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Luis Alves , Linux Media Mailing List Message-ID: <526637b0-7124-84eb-4ebc-689e83d96117@web.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:56:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, I know anything about this driver. I'm still ready to maintain this, in fact I'm doing this for years. Why do you look for another maintainer instead of supporting my pull request? In the long lasting discussion about this there was not a single technical reason why this driver cannot be merged as is, especially in staging as first step to do the required cleanup. Regards, Soeren On 25.01.2018 18:08, Jemma Denson wrote: > Hi Tycho, > > On 20/01/18 15:49, Tycho Lürsen wrote: >> Right, but we still need a maintainer. Are you capable/willing to >> volunteer for the job? > If no-one else will then yes I can, but I can't claim to know these devices > inside out. It would really depend on what's required of a maintainer, I'm > struggling to find this documented anywhere. > > Cards I can't test with would really need someone to be able to add a > tested-by to verify they work. > >>>> I think that your proposal to use a stripped version of Luis Alves >>>> repo is a no go, since it contains a couple of demod/tuner drivers >>>> that are not upstreamed yet. That complicates the upstreaming process >>>> too much, I think. >>> Oh, I would have stripped it *right* down and removed every card except >>> my TBS6280. The end result would probably be pretty close to Soeren's at >>> that point anyway, so I was starting to think like what you've done and >>> base it on that instead. >> If you want, I can strip the driver down a lot more and ad back the >> drivers you need. Just tell me what it is you need. > As above, it's really just a case of making it maintainable. If someone > can step forward and ack for them working then they could be included > but if not then I think it's best dropping them until that happens. > > > Jemma.