Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:07 +0200 | From | Aurelien Jarno <> | Subject | Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24 |
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Markus Rechberger a écrit : > On 10/11/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> As such, the old and decrepit em28xx driver seems more useful to people, >> since at least it supports the limited set of hardware on its own. > > it does not since it's broken and feature limited. On the other side
I have a device which works perfectly with it if you add the vendor and product ID to the list. I don't really call that broken. And it doesn't need a firmware.
Please think that a lot of persons do not have enough knowledge to compile out of tree drivers, and that a lot more do not even know about this out of tree driver.
> it requires a firmware from userspace too so I don't think it matters > at all if the algorithm is done in kernelspace or userspace since it > depends on such a blob (and I cannot get the source for that firmware, > if someone's interested in that he has to disassemble the firmware). >
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