Hi, we contacted Hans Verkuil in the mailing list and articulated our concerns about dropping those drivers. This was his answer: Hi ..., ... I've dropped the PR for now. Is the concern specifically for the saa7146 based hardware? I.e., from Red Hat's point of view, are there any concerns about removing vpfe_capture, tm6000, zr364xx, stkwebcam, fsl-viu, cpia2 and meye? The core problem with saa7146 (and the other deprecated drivers) is that it is using the old videobuf framework, which has known problems and we want (need!) to get rid of it, either by dropping drivers or converting them. One partial solution would be to drop analog video support from saa7146, since that's the bit that uses this framework. DVB would remain working, but analog video support would die, unless someone steps up to do the conversion from vb1 to vb2. So support for the old MXB, Hexium Gemini and Hexium Orion would die, but for the other DVB devices it would stay alive. I'm honestly quite surprised that these old DVB PCI cards are still in use, I did not expect that. Regards, Hans