[pvrusb2] driver status update

[xavier.gnata at free.fr]

> FYI, I haven't released a new snapshot of the driver lately because there
> really hasn't been a pressing need yet (i.e. no serious bugs).  I have
> however been collecting a growing list of little things to tweak mainly in
> the documentation.  Those tweaks are pretty much done now, and the web
> site has been updated with the results.
>
> The biggest thing (regarding the above) is that today I took the time to
> beat on various driver controls which can be reached from sysfs.  This is
> something I've been meaning to do for a long time, because (especially for
> the encoder) there's a lot of functionality that the driver makes
> available which simply hasn't been tested very well.  The results of all
> that experimentation have been written into a text file named
> "controls.txt".  This file lives in the doc/ directory of the source tree,
> but I've put it up on the web page and linked it from there (go to
> http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html and search for "controls.txt" to find
> the link).  Basically I found a lot more stuff working than I expected,
> and I also discovered a bunch of trivial things that should have worked
> but don't - and the blame in those cases turns out to be outside the
> driver.  I've updated the FAQ to point these out and hopefully avoid the
> inevitable confusion that will otherwise likely happen when somebody trips
> over this.
>
> The only unreleased driver fix at this point is a tiny thing for sysfs -
> it wasn't parsing negative numbers properly which right now only really
> affects the hue control and only of course when operated through sysfs.
> That isn't really enough of a problem to release another snapshot yet.
>
> I do have on my plate a task to get this driver buildable and working on
> 2.6.14whatever.  That is a more involved effort.  Once I have that done
> I'll release a new snapshot.  If a serious bug surfaces before then, well
> of course there will be a snapshot release at that point.
>
> I also still have on my plate the task of making the Subversion repository
> available through the web.  It's not a big task, just a careful one since
> I don't want to accidentally breach my server's security.  I was hoping to
> get to that this weekend, but I don't think it's going to happen yet, for
> lack of time :-(
>
>   -Mike

Hi,

Great job once again!
Do you have any info on merging the driver into kernel mainline?
Maintain backward compatibility could become a nightmare if the v4l changes at
each main kernel release :(
Dual pvr is working :) I would like to see that on my desk!
Xavier