Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023, 18:42:33 CET schrieb mh@mike.franken.de:
Hi *,
I saw an announcement for the following patch:
Well, you just picked *one* of those drivers, here's the full list: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg224902.html for everybody's entertainment.. (pun intended)
Does this mean, all of my saa7146-based DVB cards will stop working after the according openSUSE kernel will be released?
Yes.
Or will anyone at SUSE port the deprecated frontend to newer kernels?
Most probably not. DVB hardware doesn't affect any of the SUSE businesses.
Sry, if the question sounds silly, but I'm not familiar with the handling of such things regarding kernel or kernel drivers.
Well, one could argue, that those subsystem maintainers invented a new buffer handling interface in order to get rid of the old cruft. But this will make a lot of people unhappy, I'm sure. As Seife pointed out, the DVB subsystem is in a *sad* state since a *long* time. This move is just the one of the more visible consequences. Cheers, Pete -- Life without chameleons is possible, but pointless.