Steffen Barszus wrote:
HEAD is in the meantime the stable Branch (DVB) (since weeks). AFAIK the dvb drivers are in 1.0 RC and they are a lot improved over the 0.9.4 release (what I suspect is that the one that comes with the mandrake kernel are 0.9.4, I would say the are 0.8.x but I can't say for sure). And I forwarded the 1.0beta or RC announce from linux-dvb to cooker. So yes his question comes to late, but I had allready 3 related mails about it. But with the current development speed of linuxdvb it is better to get the latest from linux-dvb anyway. Just no need to carry the old drivers within the kernel.
That's exactly right. And I asked about this on 31 Dec, so there was plenty of time to include if wanted. It's not a problem not to include it, but it is a minor nuisance to include an out-of-date version. Better to take it out altogether.
The same goes for the dabusb driver.
And another thing that is a small annoyance with regard to the dabusb driver: the driver is included, but devfs does not appear to be configured to provide the device file(s), so it's pretty useless without fiddling behind the scenes. And likewise, I could find no applications for using the drivers for dvb or dabusb in main or contrib, nor could I find any documentation to explain what was needed. Basically, as you need to download the source packages to do anything useful, these drivers in their current state are pretty useless.
Maybe updating dvb and dabusb can be added to the TODO list for 9.2.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior
