From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262091AbUBWXUM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:20:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262097AbUBWXUM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:20:12 -0500 Received: from ip4.73.1311O-CUD12K-02.ish.de ([62.143.73.4]:21993 "EHLO moya") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262091AbUBWXT5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:19:57 -0500 From: Ralph Metzler Message-ID: <16442.35195.808401.972540@metzlerbros.de> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:15:07 +0100 To: Michael Hunold Cc: Andrew Morton , Michael Hunold , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update In-Reply-To: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> References: <10775702831806@convergence.de> <10775702843054@convergence.de> <20040223140943.7e58eb5c.akpm@osdl.org> <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Dr. Ralph J.K. Metzler | Metzler Brothers Systementwicklung GbR | |---------------------------|----------------------------------------| | rjkm@metzlerbros.de | http://www.metzlerbros.de/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/