On 15.01.23 21:43, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 21:30:56 CET Stefan Seyfried wrote: [...]
BTW: the drivers that will be removed (if there is nobody stepping up and maintains them), are for DVB-S cards, not DVB-S2 (I don't know about DVB-C, luckily that cup passed on me). In the not so far future, this hardware will be obsolete because more and more transponders will switch to DVB-S2 with it's better spectral efficiency. [...]
Are you sure, that only DVB-S cards are affected?
I was assuming that, because I assumed that this...
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/deprecated/saa7146/ttpci/budget-ci.c
...would be the driver for my old hauppauge budget card, like these: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_NOVA-S, which indeed was driven by this code (just checked my old config change logs ;-)
for example is for the TechnoTrend S2-3200 Budget card. I have six of them in use - four in my recording server and two of them in clients.
Well, then either you need to find someone that ports the driver to the new API (no idea how hard this is, but probably not that hard as we can look at the changes that have been done to other drivers), do it yourself or look for other, still supported hardware. I'd probably just keep using an old kernel, not upgrade the machines and just keep them off the internet :-) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman