Re: [PATCH 2/3] Basic AF9035/AF9033 driver

[Gianluca Gennari <gennarone@gmail.com>]

Il 20/03/2012 17:37, Michael Büsch ha scritto:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:27:45 +0100
> Gianluca Gennari <gennarone@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Il 20/03/2012 14:04, Michael Büsch ha scritto:
>>> Thank you for working on a af903x driver.
>>>
>>> I tried to test the driver on a debian 3.2 kernel, after applying a small fix:
>>> It should be CONFIG_DVB_USB_AF903X here.
>>
>> this issue is fixed in version "1.02" of the driver, posted by Hans a
>> few days ago.
> 
> I can only find the post from Feb 22th, which includes this glitch.
> Can you point me to the newer post in the list archives?

Here it is:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg44169.html

>>> So I'm wondering how big the differences between the fc0011 and fc0012 are.
>>> Can the 0011 be implemented in the 0012 driver, or does it require a separate driver?
>>> Please give me a few hints, to I can work on implementing support for that tuner.
>>
>> I have no idea about the real differences between the two tuner models,
>> but here you can find an old "leaked" af9035 driver with support for
>> several tuners, including fc0011 and fc0012:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/voltagex/af9035/src
>>
>> (look under the "api" subdir for the tuners).
> 
> Yeah I know about that "thing". It makes my eyes bleed, though.
> 
> But the author of this document pointed me to this:
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Fitipower
> That seems pretty useful, in addition to the existing crap driver.
> 
>> The driver is not working with recent kernels, but probably you can
>> extract the information needed to implement a proper kernel driver for
>> fc0011, using the fc0012 driver written by Hans as a reference.
> 
> Yeah after looking at things it seems best to have a separate module.
> I already started to put the boilerplate code together and I'm currently
> putting the various device specific bits in place.
> 

Nice!

Regards,
Gianluca