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From: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to get a registered adapter name
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:56:48 +0100
Cc: Brice Dubost <dubost@crans.org>, Benedict bdc091 <bdc091@gmail.com>
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On Freitag, 27. November 2009, Brice Dubost wrote:
> Benedict bdc091 wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I'd like to enumerate connected DVB devices from my softawre, based on
> > DVB API V3.

> > So, I tried to figure out a way to get "ASUS My Cinema U3000 Mini DVBT
> > Tuner" string from adapter, instead of "DiBcom 7000PC" from adapter's
> > frontend...
> > Unsuccefully so far.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have the same issue, I look a bit to the code of the DVB drivers, it
> seems not obvious to recover this name as it is written now
>
> It is stored in the "struct dvb_adapter". and printed by
> dvb_register_adapter, but doesn't seems to be available by other functions
>

I think putting it somewhere into sysfs is a good idea (along with frontend 
name).
Best is to move all dvb sysfs-devices into a per adapter subdirectory.

Matthias