From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:35693 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbdEEPok (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2017 11:44:40 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id b10so2115543wmh.2 for ; Fri, 05 May 2017 08:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 17:44:37 +0200 From: Thomas Hollstegge To: Markus Rechberger Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] em28xx: support for Sundtek MediaTV Digital Home Message-ID: <20170505154435.GA18161@googlemail.com> References: <20170504222115.GA26659@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Markus, Markus Rechberger schrieb am Fri, 05. May 08:06: > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Thomas Hollstegge > wrote: > > Sundtek MediaTV Digital Home is a rebranded MaxMedia UB425-TC with the > > following components: > > > > USB bridge: Empia EM2874B > > Demodulator: Micronas DRX 3913KA2 > > Tuner: NXP TDA18271HDC2 > > > > Not that it matters a lot anymore for those units however the USB ID > is allocated for multiple different units, this patch will break some > of them. I searched the kernel sources for USB IDs but didn't find any mention. So what exactly will break with this commit? Is there a better way to detect different devices besides USB IDs? > If you want to use that use the unit with this driver you're on your > own and have to assign it via sysfs and usb/bind. I did, and it works fine. However, it would be nice if the driver supported the devices directly. > It was a joint project many years ago before we also started to design > and manufacture our own units. Interesting, thanks for sharing this insight! Cheers Thomas