[linux-dvb] Re: margi2

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

daniel schneider wrote:
> hello.
>
> i'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list, but...
>
> i've been trying to get my margi dvd-to-go decoder card to work with 
> RedHat linux 9 and kernel 2.4.20-18.9.
>
> i noticed right away that the links for the margi driver do not work... 
> so i'm assuming the driver is no longer being developed?  i found the 
> margi2 module in CVS, and i checked it out while in the pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 
> directory.  i then copied the appropriate file from the margi2 directory 
> into the pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 directory.  i successfully compiled and 
> installed the drivers.  when i insert the card into the pcmcia slot, i 
> get an error about the non-GPL license and the kernel being tainted as a 
> result of loading one of the modules (the first one, whichever that one 
> is).
>
> so, is the linux driver for the margi dvd-to-go decoder card a dead 
> issue now?  noone is maintaining it?  is there a fix for this problem of 
> tainting the kernel?  i'd work on it myself, but i'm just a stupid 
> engineer...  does anyone have answers??
The margi code is unmaintained right now, just because so few people 
have this card and you can decode MPEGs in software on every recent 
computer.

If you want to take over maintenance of the Margi code, great -- just 
send all patches to this list! To get rid of the 'kernel tainted' 
message just add a MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") macro. But that's usually 
uncritical.

Holger



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