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Mauro Carvalho Chehab					2005 Dec 02

	The master copy of the video4linux and dvb kernel subsystem is now 
maintained jointly at http://linuxtv.org/

=== v4l-dvb snapshots available at linuxtv.org

	We are now publishing periodic snapshots (about once a month or 
before rellevant changes) at linuxtv.org. The main idea is to have 
"stable" snapshots on Linuxtv. You can check it at:

http://linuxtv.org/downloads/snapshots

=== v4l-dvb quilt available at linuxtv.org

	It is also available patches against latest development kernel at: 
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/quilt

	patches/series shows the correct order to apply.

== Getting the latest Snapshot

	You must have mercurial installed in order to access the 
repository. To get the latest sources from Hg you need to issue the 
following command:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

* Patches should be built against v4l-dvb master Hg repository.

=== How to get your changes into the mainline tree?

1. Post your patches to the corresponding mailing list for review and 
testing by other people. For analog or core changes, the mailing list is
video4linux-list@redhat.com. For DVB changes, the mailing list
is linux-dvb@linuxtv.org. The latest requires subscription.
http://linuxtv.org/lists.php

2.  Using [PATCH] at subject will help maintainers to better handle it.

3.  Please include a ChangeLog description in the headers of your patch.

4.  Every patch shall have a Developers Certificate of Origin like

Signed-off-by: Your name <name@yoursite.com>

with name of people envolving on making it.

	This should be a real name and address. The exact meaning of the 
signed-off-by is postulated at linux source code, at file:
	Documentation/SubmittingPatches

5.  Fix problems and repeat until everyone is happy ;)

6.  Maintainers will periodically submit changes to mainstream.

Mauro
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab .at. linuxtv .dot. org>