linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCHES for 2.6.33] DVB Mantis driver

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Date:	Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:54:27 +0200
From:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCHES for 2.6.33] DVB Mantis driver

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> Please pull from:
>         ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git mantis
> 
> For the DVB mantis driver. This is a new driver that add support for the DVB devices
> based on ST mantis chips. This design is becoming very popular and the driver were
> already out of the kernel tree for some time.
> 
> As this driver doesn't touch on the existing code, were already confirmed to work
> by several people, and is being on linux-next since December, I'm hoping that you'll
> accept its late submission for 2.6.33.
> 

Hi,

I don't know it it was intentional but those mantis and hopper drivers doesn't call MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
macro which makes them aliasless and hence not auto-loadable.

Regards,
Ozan Caglayan
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