will saa7146-based DVB cards stop working in the near future?

Hi *, I saw an announcement for the following patch: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg224909.html Does this mean, all of my saa7146-based DVB cards will stop working after the according openSUSE kernel will be released? Or will anyone at SUSE port the deprecated frontend to newer kernels? Sry, if the question sounds silly, but I'm not familiar with the handling of such things regarding kernel or kernel drivers. Thx and bye. Michael.