Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions:
  
  Michael Hunold <m.hunold@gmx.de>

    for the initial saa7146 driver and its recent overhaul

  
  Christian Theiss
    for his work on the initial Linux DVB driver
  
  Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de>
  Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
    for their continuing work on the DVB driver
  
  Michael Holzt <kju@debian.org>
    for his contributions to the dvb-net driver
  
  Diego Picciani <d.picciani@novacomp.it>
    for CyberLogin for Linux which allows logging onto EON

    (in case you are wondering where CyberLogin is, EON changed its login

    procedure and CyberLogin is no longer used.)
  
  Martin Schaller <martin@smurf.franken.de>
    for patching the cable card decoder driver
  
  Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
    for various fixes regarding tuning, OSD and CI stuff and his work on VDR
  
  Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
    for his AFC kernel thread
  
  Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
    for his LIRC infrared handler
  
  Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>
  Dennis Noermann <dennis.noermann@noernet.de>
  Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net>
  Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
  Ronny Strutz <3des@elitedvb.de>
  Wolfram Joost <dbox2@frokaschwei.de>
  ...and all the other dbox2 people
    for many bugfixes in the generic DVB Core, frontend drivers and
    their work on the dbox2 port of the DVB driver
  
  Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
    for many bugfixes
  
  Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
    for the tda1004x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
  
  Peter Schildmann <peter.schildmann@web.de>
    for the driver for the Technisat SkyStar2 PCI DVB card
  
  Vadim Catana <skystar@moldova.cc>
  Roberto Ragusa <r.ragusa@libero.it>
  Augusto Cardoso <augusto@carhil.net>
    for all the work for the FlexCopII chipset by B2C2,Inc.
  
  Davor Emard <emard@softhome.net>
    for his work on the budget drivers, the demux code,
    the module unloading problems, ...

  Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfvogt@arcor.de>
    for his work on calculating and checking the crc's for the
    TechnoTrend/Hauppauge DEC driver firmware
  
  Michael Dreher <michael@5dot1.de>
  Andreas 'randy' Weinberger
    for the support of the Fujitsu-Siemens Activy budget DVB-S

  Kenneth Aafløy <ke-aa@frisurf.no>

    for adding support for Typhoon DVB-S budget card
  
  Ernst Peinlich <e.peinlich@inode.at>
    for tuning/DiSEqC support for the DEC 3000-s
  
  Peter Beutner <p.beutner@gmx.net>
    for the IR code for the ttusb-dec driver

  Wilson Michaels <wilsonmichaels@earthlink.net>
    for the lgdt330x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
  
  Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
    for maintaining v4l/dvb inter-tree dependencies
  
  Taylor Jacob <rtjacob@earthlink.net>
    for the nxt2002 frontend driver
  
  Jean-Francois Thibert <jeanfrancois@sagetv.com>
    for the nxt2004 frontend driver
  
  Kirk Lapray <kirk.lapray@gmail.com>
    for the or51211 and or51132 frontend drivers, and
    for merging the nxt2002 and nxt2004 modules into a
    single nxt200x frontend driver.

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