Can the driver be build against the newer v4l and dvb core?

Hello, I'm running a mythtv system and have an old tbs5220 I'd like to use, but I use two Realtek dvb sticks as well that need the media drivers from newer kernels. The dvb drivers TBS include don't have these in there. Is it possible for TBS, or myself to patch a newer media build to include the TBS modules?
Darren Wilkinson
Darren Wilkinson