Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:57:09 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Flemming Jacobsen <fj@login.dknet.dk> Cc: dburr@pobox.com (Donald Burr), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of the bt848 driver? (FW: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail) Message-ID: <199807291657.JAA01798@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:15:06 %2B0700." <199807290915.LAA02623@login.dknet.dk>
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Soren was well informed that we were revamping the Bt848 tuner detection code and at the time of his committal we spent nearly two weeks decoding the Hauppauge's eeprom for a flawless Hauppauge's tuner algorithm. Additionally, I stated that we do have a mechanism for detecting cards/tuners which don't have an eeprom however this sort of things takes time due to the wide variety of Bt848 cards available. It is irresponsible for someone like Soren to patch the driver in such a fashion without beta testing the driver at large;addditionally, what he did is ethically tasteless. Amancio > Hi, > > > Why did it have to come down to this, anyway? (Enquiring minds want to > > know...) > > Since it's unlikely that any of the three will comment, I'll > share what I know. > > I've known PHK since highschool, and Soeren for a couple of > years, thus when I saw Amancios post on -multimedia I sent them a > mail which (in essence) said "What the fuck are you two bozos > doing ?". We exchanged a flurry of emails that day (Fri 17) - > sharing main language and timezone works wonders for communication. > > What happened seem to be: > Soeren sent Amancio a patch to get his AVer Media card working > (10 lines added to the card table). > After waiting for 1+ months, Soeren checked it in himself. > Amancio didn't like this and wanted to back it out, but was > told by PHK that this was unacceptable unless he added the same > functionality. > Amancio couldn't accept this, and walked out. > > I realize that I've pretty much only got Sorens and PHKs side, > but I've confirmed the 10 line uncomplicted patch by looking at > the CVS tree. > > > Hyg' > Flemming > > -- > Flemming Jacobsen Email: fj@login.dknet.dk Phone: +45 3916 1833 > ---=== If speed kills, Windows users may live forever. ===--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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