From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it ([85.18.95.73]:39565 "EHLO aa013msr.fastwebnet.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757882AbZCaWrG (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:47:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:47:02 +0200 From: Gabriele Dini Ciacci To: Devin Heitmueller Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Boettcher Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers for Pinnacle pctv200e and pctv60e Message-ID: <20090401004702.539afbda@gdc1> In-Reply-To: <412bdbff0903311451w776c7b68t22fc3acbcd23fe64@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090329155608.396d2257@gdc1> <20090331075610.53620db8@pedra.chehab.org> <20090331212052.152d2ffc@gdc1> <412bdbff0903311359i3f3883dds2d870c93e23d08f2@mail.gmail.com> <20090331233524.4000cb61@gdc1> <412bdbff0903311451w776c7b68t22fc3acbcd23fe64@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:23 -0400 Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Gabriele Dini Ciacci > wrote: > > I it's so, say me how to make or where to look to create a profile > > for the existing driver. > > > > I am willing to do the work. > > > > (when I first wrote the driver to me it seemed that this was the > > simplet way. > > > > Meanwhile I will try to look at the Cypress FX2 > > As Michael Krufky pointed out to me off-list, I was not exactly > correct here. > > While there are indeed drivers based on the same FX2 chip in your > device, it may be possible to reuse an existing driver, or you may > need a whole new driver, depending on how much the firmware varies > between your product versus the others. You may want to look at the > pvrusb2 and cxusb drivers, which also use the FX2 chip, and see what > similarities exist in terms of the API and command set. If it is not > similar to any of the others, then writing a new driver is probably > the correct approach. > > Regards, > > Devin > Fine perfect, thanks, I will have a look asap and report for judge. Cheers. Gabriele ----------- http://linux-wildo.sf.net http://www.diniciacci.org