[mythtv] Kernel dropped support for SAA7146 DVB Cards

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 09:24:38AM +1000, Kingsley Turner wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> It looks like support for SAA7146 based DVB cards has been dropped from the
> kernel.
> 
> Ref: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/517fcea8-bc76-255c-da59-43c0b7f56486@xs4all.nl/
> 
> Is there anything I can do about this?
> Is it feasible to compile the drivers myself?
> 
> Is it worth buying new PCI DVB cards?  Do these even exist??!

Moved to staging is not quite the same as dropped.  It's still there.

Also that message is from almost 1 year ago, and looking at the current
kernel git tree, the driver has in fact not been moved to staging,
it's still where it was before.

I even see updates and fixes done to that driver in the last few months.

For example:
commit 017984559d09aef296011f9a8e9ce855404ad519
Author: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco at xs4all.nl>
Date:   Thu Mar 2 11:41:39 2023 +0000

    media: common: saa7146: add support for missing .vidioc_try_fmt_vbi_cap

    Support for VIDIOC_TRY_FMT for the vbi device was missing.
    Add it.

    This fixes a V4L2 compliance issue.

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Len Sorensen