hverkuil, thanks for the update - that bit about "As a result of last year's plumbers conference a new API was designed for DVB tuners..." was good to know!
We'd like to track how effective we were in helping to solve issues in Linux and moving code fwd (so which topics were useful to talk about and which possibly were less so.. :)). One of the key goals of the LPC is to get developers together to address thorny problems, resolve issues, design solutions and get new stuff into Linux.