On 1/16/23 04:44, Larry Finger wrote:
On 1/15/23 11:42, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
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.
If that patch is accepted, which is not a sure thing, you will either need to stay with an older kernel, or you will need to acquire a source for the drive and build it externally. The kernel source for the latest source that includes this driver would be an excellent source.
Building an external module is not trivial, but it is not rocket science. :)
Building the external driver would be even more difficult in this case because the reason for dropping the driver is to remove significant API that the driver uses from the kernel. So you'd still have to port the driver to the new API and if you are capable of that then you may as well speak up do the work and it can stay in the mainline kernel. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B