Re: [PATCH] Kconfig option to enable faulty Artec DVB-T USB devices, cleanups, documentation

[Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de>]

Hi Marc,

I finally found the time to commit some of your cleanups to the 
V4L-DVB-CVS.

I only took some of your cleanups. The useful ones :)

Thanks for your help,
Patrick.

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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> The following patch adds a Kconfig option in the DVB-T USB section that enables
> a user to select wether some faulty Artec devices may be supported due to an
> invalid EEPROM. Some googling stated that some people had problems getting the
> device to be detected by the driver (though the device was stated to be
> supported by the module on various sites). As not anyone is into changing source
> code a Kconfig option would be appropriate for these users. Patrick Boettcher
> also suggested a Kconfig would make sense. Moreover, one may share the option in
> his/her .config accross several kernels instead of uncommenting the #define on
> any -git checkout or new kernel release. It was simply annoying. :)
>
> Moreover, there's some cleanup on indentation and such, added some explanation
> to the faulty UDB IDs code, re-ordered the list of supported devices in Kconfig
> to match out alphabet ;)
>
> The #ifdef-fing of dibusb-mc functions was removed due to Adrian Bunks' hint.
>
> Patrick Boettcher and the Linux DVB Maintainers are CC'ed...
>
> The patch is against the current -git but should cause no problems on the recent
> releases.
>
> Regards,
> 	marc
>