Re: [GIT PULL] SAA716x DVB driver

[Jemma Denson <jdenson@gmail.com>]

Hi Mauro,

On 27/11/17 11:24, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:28:37 +0100
> Tycho Lürsen <tycholursen@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Hi Mauro,
>>
>> afaik the last communication about submission of this driver was about
>> two months ago.
>>
>> This driver is important to me, because I own several TurboSight cards
>> that are saa716x based. I want to submit a patch that supports my cards.
>> Of course I can only do so when you accept this driver in the first place.
>>
>> Any chance you and Sören agree about how to proceed about this driver
>> anytime soon?
> If we can reach an agreement about what should be done for the driver
> to be promoted from staging some day, I'll merge it. Otherwise,
> it can be kept maintained out of tree. This driver has been maintained
> OOT for a very long time, and it seems that people were happy with
> that, as only at the second half of this year someone is requesting
> to merge it.
>
> So, while I agree that the best is to merge it upstream and
> address the issues that made it OOT for a long time, we shouldn't
> rush it with the risk of doing more harm than good.
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro

Would I be correct in thinking the main blocker to this is the *_ff features
used by the S2-6400 card? There's plenty of other cards using this chipset
that don't need that part.

Would a solution for now to be a driver with the ff components stripped out,
and then the ff API work can be done later when / if there's any interest?

I guess a problem would be finding a maintainer, I'm happy to put together
a stripped down driver just supporting the TBS card I use (I already have
one I use with dkms), but I'm not sure I have the time or knowledge of this
chipset to be a maintainer. Unfortunately my workplace is phasing out
these cards otherwise I'd try and get them to sponsor me rather than do it
on my own time!


Jemma.