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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:55:36 +0100 From: "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@...il.com> To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> Cc: "Devin Heitmueller" <devin.heitmueller@...il.com>, "Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@...all.nl>, v4l <video4linux-list@...hat.com>, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, em28xx <em28xx@...ntral.de>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, mchehab@...radead.org Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Devin Heitmueller > <devin.heitmueller@...il.com> wrote: >> The reality is that from a technical standpoint I really want Markus >> to be the maintainer. He knows more about the devices than anyone, >> works for the vendor, and has access to all the datasheets. That >> said, I don't want a situation where he is the *only* one who can do >> work on the codebase because it is poorly commented and structured in >> a way where only he can understand why it works the way it does. >> Also, I believe certain design decisions should be made as a result of >> consensus with the other maintainers, taking into consideration >> consistency across drivers. > > I can understand that you want him to be the maintainer. But so far he > hasn't really shown to be interested in doing that. It's just bit sad > that the we don't have a proper driver given that the code exists and > that there's a person who's willing to do the work to get it merged... > There's alot discussion and I haven't followed it yet although, the best way to go seen from my side is to take the em28xx-new code and merge the usable kernelcode into that one (note that only ~10% of the devices in the kernel em28xx driver are actually tested). I read about the License, I can say this is no issue overall, all of the code is available under GPL, and some of it is also under BSD license. I need to catch up the other mails before continuing... Markus -- 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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