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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:27:17 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> To: "Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@...all.nl> Cc: "Devin Heitmueller" <devin.heitmueller@...il.com>, "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@...il.com>, v4l <video4linux-list@...hat.com>, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, em28xx <em28xx@...ntral.de> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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