[linux-dvb] Why do we need Kernel 2.6.13 ?

[Helmut Auer]

Johannes Stezenbach schrieb:

>Helmut Auer wrote:
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>>I have a distri with vdr and so this distri needs dvb drivers. There 
>>were some kernel versions even with broken dvb drivers, so I always took 
>>the latest cvs drivers when building a new distri. This workes fine for 
>>a long time but in the last two weeks I was twice forced to update the 
>>kernel. I understand that these changes may lead to break backward 
>>compatibilty, but I was very astonished that this happened twice in such 
>>a short time after I had no problem for about 4 months.
>>So would you `really recommend to use always the drivers coming with the 
>>kernel ?
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>Use this for the while being:
>http://linuxtv.org/downloads/patches/
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Great - thanks ! That's exactly what I'm looking for :)
I hope that will be also available in the future for the next kernel's ?!

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Helmut Auer, helmut at helmutauer.de