Re: [PATCH] hdpvr: i2c fixups for fully functional IR support

[Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Andy Walls wrote:
> 
> >> Hrm. A brief google search suggests the 1250 IR part isn't enabled. I
> >> see a number of i2c devices in i2cdetect -l output, but none that say
> >> anything about IR... I could just plug the hdpvr in there and see  
> >> what
> >> happens, I suppose...
> >
> > You should try that.  It was an issue of legacy I2C driver probing  
> > that
> > caused the hdpvr module to have problems.  The cx18 driver simply
> > stimulated the i2c subsystem to do legacy probing (via the tuner  
> > modules
> > IIRC)?  See the email I sent you.
> 
> So from what I can tell, the i2c changes in 2.6.31 *should* prevent  
> that from happening, and now that I've got everything working on  
> 2.6.31 too, I'll try hooking up my hdpvr to my box w/an hvr-1250,  
> hvr-1800 and pchdtv hd-3000 in it and see what blows up (hopefully  
> nothing...).

We still need something to prevent it from happening with older kernels.
Easiest solution would be to disable it for 2.6.30 and earlier.

Janne