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So it is not entirely surprising that this driver has not been received with a great deal of enthusiasm. Just one, I have to write that Michael Krufky was also involved into why it turned bad. There have been a couple of approaches to solve the technical problem to share 1 component between analog and digital TV the tuner back then. The sad story of the em28xx driver Posted Nov 24, Markus Rechberger The sad story of the em28xx driver.

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The sad story of the em28xx driver

His ljnux to enhance that driver quickly ran into trouble, though, when he tried to make substantial changes to the low-level tuner interface - changes which affected a number of other drivers. It's same as with Reiser4 Posted Nov 14, So now the userspace stuff comes in thinking about how to open up that project again so that work can be used with the existing kernel.

At times, Markus e,28xx to block those changes.

In particular, users of the code — people with a material interest in it — maintain it. I just want to avoid spending hours on it again.

The sad story of the em28xx driver []

Posted Nov 14, There are ,inux who will attest that the drivers work, and that Markus provides good support for them. Experience with drivers merged under this policy has generally been positive; once those drivers head for the mainline, they get more attention and tend to improve quickly.

Let's just agree that you guys disagreed, and move forward. It can do some setup steps which the API currently cannot handle.

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Jonathan's article is overall ok, but it starts right after the bad things happened when the mood of everyone was already below something good. Is it actually a requirement for driver inclusion that future support be lined up? Posted Nov 20, The sad story of the em28xx driver Posted Nov 27, So this code was not merged. Building a virtual front between developers who actually supported linux for a long time isn't healthy. In the end, some of the developers decided to just improve the version of the driver currently in-kernel rather than continuing to deal with Markus.

Linux Kernel Driver DataBase: CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX: Empia EM28xx USB video capture support

Now continue reading with the article ontop of it. That's non sequitur to me.

Maybe Jon's article can be the crystallization point for everybody to take a step back and go on a path of compromise instead of confrontation hope springs eternal, I know I don't want to own the em28xx driver, I would like to maintain it since I did that for 3 years already, accepting useful patches giving reviews etc.

He then continued development of the code, hosting it on his own server. But, as things stand now, it would appear that this driver is not headed for the mainline.

CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX: Empia EM28xx USB video capture support

Some time, some sociologist may want to use that material in a thesis about group dynamics in open source development Another point here could be what is a kernelspace driver worth which requires firmware and doesn't come with firmware. They ended with Markus submitting some code which made non-backwards compatible em28x to that code something some of the other developers didn't like ; one of them proposed a simple change that would add better backwards compatibility, but Markus basically said "take it liinux it is or leave it".

The reason for the big patch has always been that the code had to be rebased because the maintainer basically didn't care about anything there. It's all about friendship there, A likes B instead of C even if C has better stuff and supporters, so A will wait till B completes his stuff, and C will be pushed away as long as possible without clean reviews or something else, this is just the way how it works out.

First of all some clarification: At that stage device node locking, preventing dvb appications to use the nodes while analog TV was in use was already implemented, and I also worked out alot other PCI devices some are still not merged with mainline.

In the referenced posting, you suggest that time could be used better to fix bugs. It's same as with Reiser4 Posted Nov 15, 5: After few years he started to close bugs and feature requests with "use reiser4" effectively abandoning users and stopped reiserfs support when something went wring he pointed out that the same thing worked perfectly with previous version of kernel and basically refused to debug and fix problems thus abandoning developers.