[linux-dvb] Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be deadcode

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:36 +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >I didn't find any way how the drivers/media/dvb/frontends/at76c651.c 
> >driver would do anything inside kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. All it does is to 
> >EXPORT_SYMBOL a function at76c651_attach that isn't used anywhere.
> >
> >Is a patch to remove this driver OK or did I miss anything?
> >  
> >
> 
> no, please let it there. This driver is the GPL'd part of the dbox2 
> driver which is not part of the official kernel tree.

(Actually all dbox2 drivers are GPL-licensed, you can get them at
cvs.tuxbox.org)

> Since frontend and demod drivers are reusable elsewhere and mainstream 
> hardware that makes use of this demodulator may show up every week it's 
> just stupid to remove this code as long we know it is working and 
> continously tested by the dbox2 folks.
> 
> Instead it may make sense to move the dbox2 sources into the mainstream 
> source tree. Andreas, what do you think?

It has been a long term goal since months, but I don't have the time for
it now. We are still waiting for mpc8xx to become stable in 2.6.

Regards,
Andreas