[vdr] Re: VDR and 2.6.0-test1?

[Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>]

Hello Klaus,

> > @Klaus Schmidinger: I don't think DVB-driver will be developed further
> > more after kernel 2.6 has become public. There are one year old patches
> > in DVB-kernel which never made it into DVB-driver.
> Which I really consider a pitty!
If these patches are crucial to the dvb subsystem, then somebody should 
dig them out and repost them on the DVB mailing list.

> I believe I have incorporated every change I made in the DVB driver
> into the corresponding place in the dvb-kernel driver, too - even
> though I don't use the dvb-kernel version myself. Since the DVB driver
> still _is_ widely used (and certainly will be for quite a while!) I
> would expect the same in the opposite direction from other developers...
I can only speak for myself: I'm using vdr with "dvb-kernel" and 2.4.21 
for a few months now, 2.6.0-test1-bk2 works, too, but I did not test it 
with "vdr". But I'm not a "heavy" vdr user...

I think when 2.6 is out, the "DVB" driver will be marked obsolete. It 
can still be used for stable 2.4 systems. Improvements to the av7110 
driver and the v3 DVB-API will go to both trees, if the authors prepare 
the corresponding patches. So don't worry here.

> > DVB-kernel has a
> > complete new layout (especially SAA7146 subsystem). So it's time to add
> > the driver dependent sources to VDR to get it compiling stand-alone
> > without driver-sources.
Sorry, that's not true completely. Yes, saa7146 subsystem has changed, 
but this does not affect vdr, only the video backends (xawtv, kvdr). But 
no, the dvb-core is exactly the same as in DVB, and the av7110 has only 
been changed slightly.

> I'm not sure what you mean here. Since the API is the same, what should VDR
> have to worry about which driver version you use?
Exactly.

> Klaus
CU
Michael.



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