Re: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

Re: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1?  I seem to have 
> no problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my 
> hardware definitely does not need any firmware to work.

And here I ended without bttv support, maybe because I didn't 
have FW_LOADER in .config ?

make oldconfig from a 2.6.9-rc4 .config to 2.6.10-rc1 just 
removed bttv support.

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Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

[Petr Vandrovec]

Hello,
  what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1?  I seem to have no
problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my hardware 
definitely does not need any firmware to work.

  I also do not understand why bttv depends on I2C and selects
I2C_ALGOBIT.  Should not it depend on I2C_ALGOBIT instead, or
select both I2C and I2C_ALGOBIT.  Doing it this way seems rather
strange to me.
				Thanks,
					Petr Vandrovec


diff -Nru a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig       2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00
+++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig       2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@

 config VIDEO_BT848
        tristate "BT848 Video For Linux"
-       depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && SOUND
+       depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && FW_LOADER
        select I2C_ALGOBIT
        ---help---
          Support for BT848 based frame grabber/overlay boards. This includes

Re: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 16:17, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>Hello,
>  what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1?  I seem to have no
>problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my hardware
>definitely does not need any firmware to work.
>
>  I also do not understand why bttv depends on I2C and selects
>I2C_ALGOBIT.  Should not it depend on I2C_ALGOBIT instead, or
>select both I2C and I2C_ALGOBIT.  Doing it this way seems rather
>strange to me.
>    Thanks,
>     Petr Vandrovec

I'll second, third, or whatever place I have in the squawk line, this 
squawk, bttv has been working just fine with the former config 
settings.  I'm on 2.6.9, but when I went to watch a little tv 
tonight, tvtime had a blue screen, saying it couldn't 
open /dev/video0.  An lsmod didn't show videodev or bttv and the 
modules do not exist in /lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/*.  I don't have 
any firmware to load, so this patch below needs to be reverted.

>diff -Nru a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
> b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig --- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig    
>   2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00 +++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig     
>  2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>
> config VIDEO_BT848
>        tristate "BT848 Video For Linux"
>-       depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && SOUND
>+       depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && FW_LOADER
>        select I2C_ALGOBIT
>        ---help---
>          Support for BT848 based frame grabber/overlay boards. This
> includes

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