Hello, I am aware of the policy stated on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines and that this in general means that new features/drivers are rejected.
I still would like to ask for an exception: The "mantis" DVB driver was included in upstream version 2.6.33. This driver is very self contained, adding one directory under drivers/media/dvb/, 5 files (2 new frontends) under drivers/media/dvb/frontends/, a one-line bugfix patch to drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (which might be forwarded through upstream stable, if so required) and otherwise only the necessary Makefile and Kconfig changes. I do realize that current policy is that new drivers should be packaged as dkms source packages, but I believe that this is not a good solution in this specific case because: - the separate driver package will only ever be needed for the 2.6.32 kernel - the driver is highly integrated in the DVB subsystem and links with a number of existing frontends. The necessary header files are not part of linux-headers and would therefore have to be copied from the kernel source, creating problems if these should ever be changed. Do you think an exception may be possible for this driver? If so, I can prepare a patch proposal for review. If not, then I guess a dkms package is the way forward. In that case, do you have any guidelines on how to deal with the inclusion of header files from kernel source? The necessary headers are: drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/demux.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dmxdev.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_net.h drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lnbp21.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_cfg.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_drv.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_reg.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb6100_cfg.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb6100.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv0299.h drivers/media/dvb/frontends/zl10353.h Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
