From: Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
To: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:15:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16442.35195.808401.972540@metzlerbros.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de>
Michael Hunold writes:
> Yes. But as I wrote in the mail to Christoph, we currently don't have a
> chance to use some in-kernel structure (pci device, i2c bus) that
> automatically exports the firmware loading magic through sysfs.
>
> Because of this, we would have to write our own sysfs backend for the
> dvb i2c subsystem, in order to get proper firmware loading support.
>
> As I already mentioned in another mail, we want to go back to the kernel
> i2c subsystem.
>
> Currently, the stuff is running quite stable and is "in use".
>
> Changing the i2c subsystem would require changes in all frontend drivers
> + plus in the dvb drivers exporting the i2c facilities.
I converted back to using normal i2c a long time ago (as soon as I was
"free to") but nobody ever was interested ...
You can see how to do it in my DVB drivers, at least for the cards
I am supporting.
Ralph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 21:04 [PATCH 0/9] LinuxTV.org DVB update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Update saa7146 driver core Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Minor DVB Skystar2 updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] DVB core update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Misc. DVB frontend updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] stv0299 DVB frontend update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] av7110 DVB driver update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] TTUSB-Budget " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:18 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 22:47 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 23:01 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 22:52 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 23:15 ` Ralph Metzler [this message]
2004-02-24 11:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-23 22:57 ` Michael Hunold
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