Staging submission: PCTV 80e and PCTV 74e drivers (was Re: Problems cloning the git repostories)

[Stefan Richter]

Adding Cc: staging maintainer and mailinglist.

On Sep 26 Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <maurochehab at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Want to see more device support upstream?  Optimize the process to
> >> make it easy for the people who know the hardware and how to write the
> >> drivers to get code upstream, and leave it to the "janitors" to work
> >> out the codingstyle issues.
> >
> > The process you've just described exists already since Sept, 2008.
> > It is called:
> >        /drivers/staging
> >
> > In summary, if you don't have a couple hours to make your driver to
> > match Kernel Coding Style, just send it as is to /drivers/staging, c/c
> > me and Greg KH, and that's it.
> 
> PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-80e/
> PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102-2/
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> The harder you make it to get code upstream, the more developers who
> will just say "to hell with this".  And *that* is why there are
> thousands of lines of working drivers which various developers have in
> out-of-tree drivers.

Hi,

perhaps a kind developer over at devel at driverdev could extract patches for
staging out of the above mercurial repositories, and then folks can work
on mainline inclusion.  (Somebody who actually has such a device might be
most motivated to do it.)

No need to get angry that it hasn't happened yet. :-)  It's just a matter
of the right people joining the effort at the right time.

Thanks Devin for the offer,
-- 
Stefan Richter
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