saa7164 driver not in karmic kernel

Adam Ward caysho at wa.apana.org.au
Tue Oct 6 09:40:49 UTC 2009


On Monday 05 October 2009 01:18:05 you wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Ward <caysho at wa.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>
> Hello Adam,
>
> You are correct in that the saa7164 was merged into the mainline
> v4l-dvb too late to make it for 2.6.31.  It did go into 2.6.32 though.
>
> Of course, if someone from Canonical was willing to do a backport to
> get it into their 2.6.31 kernel, they are welcome to.  However, I
> assumed as a general rule they do not do this unless they have a
> specific financial incentive to.
>
> Devin

Devin and  manjo, thanks for the feedback.

I will try the mainline builds as suggested by manjo.





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