linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:03 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	em28xx <em28xx@...ntral.de>, acano@...tmail.fm,
	Andre Kelmanson <akelmanson@...il.com>,
	Bouwsma Barry <freebeer.bouwsma@...il.com>,
	Dan Kreiser <kreiser@...ormatik.hu-berlin.de>,
	Frank Neuber <fn@...nelport.de>,
	Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@...ercraft.nl>,
	John Stowers <john.stowers.lists@...il.com>,
	Lukas Kuna <lukas.kuna@...anet.net>,
	Stefan Vonolfen <stefan.vonolfen@...il.com>,
	Stephan Berberig <s.berberig@...or.de>,
	Thomas Giesecke <thomas.giesecke@...mbh-naumburg.de>,
	Vitaly Wool <vwool@...mvista.com>,
	Zhenyu Wang <zhen78@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:14:36PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
>     em2880-dvb:
>     * supporting the digital part of Empia based devices, which
> includes ATSC, ISDB-T and DVB-T

<snip>

Doesn't this driver duplicate some of the existing devices we already
support with the current in-kernel driver?  If so, why not just add the
new device support to the existing driver instead of duplicating
everything?

This is going to cause a big problem for distros as they will not know
which to enable, so they will probably just disable this one, which is
what I don't think you want to have happen :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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