Hi, On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 19:48:38 CET John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Michael!
On 1/15/23 18:42, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
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?
Yes, if this patch gets accepted, your hardware stops working, so you better speak up!
I'm not sure, where to speak up? I am not a kernel developer (or developer at all), so I don't have any idea what measures would be available in cases like this.
Unfortunately, the kernel is losing more and more features over time because kernel developers seem to be more focused on refactoring code than keeping the code useful.
»We have come up with a new API for this set of drivers! The one of the hardware you are using hasn't been converted to the new API? Aww, too bad, better buy some new hardware and toss your old, perfectly working hardware into the landfill!«
I have been bitten by this as well and it frustrates me quite a lot!
Is this some sort of generation conflict? It seems to me, as if developers in former times had a different approach. And many of them gave up due to frustration over the "new way" things go.
Adrian
Bye. Michael.