Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:27:17 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver |
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote: > At this time I do not advocate replacing the current em28xx driver. But > when they are both in the kernel, then I expect and hope that the best > features of the em28xx driver are merged into the empia driver and that > the current em28xx driver can eventually be dropped.
We've done that many times and it usually ends up with us dragging the old driver along for a very long time (look at the eepro100 driver removal as an example). So you really want to just incrementally fix up em28xx driver to avoid a mess.
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