Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sat Nov 01 2008 - 12:27:28 EST


On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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