Re: tuner-core i2c address range check: time to remove them?

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>]

Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Sunday 29 March 2009 22:53:01 Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The tuner-core.c source contains this warning since 2.6.24:
>>
>> tuner_warn("Support for tuners in i2c address range 0x64 thru 0x6f\n");
>> tuner_warn("will soon be dropped. This message indicates that your\n");
>> tuner_warn("hardware has a %s tuner at i2c address 0x%02x.\n",
>>                    t->name, t->i2c->addr);
>> tuner_warn("To ensure continued support for your device, please\n");
>> tuner_warn("send a copy of this message, along with full dmesg\n");
>> tuner_warn("output to v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org\n");
>> tuner_warn("Please use subject line: \"obsolete tuner i2c address.\"\n");
>> tuner_warn("driver: %s, addr: 0x%02x, type: %d (%s)\n",
>>                    t->i2c->adapter->name, t->i2c->addr, t->type,
>> t->name);
>>
>> Isn't it time to remove these i2c addresses? I don't believe we ever had
>> a real tuner at such an address.
>>
>> With the ongoing v4l2_subdev conversion I need to do a bit of cleanup in
>> tuner-core.c as well, so it would be a good time for me to combine it
>> (and it gets rid of an ugly cx88 hack in tuner-core.c as well).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 	Hans
> 
> Mike, please let me know if I can remove this!

Hans,

The warning message can be removed now, but please note that i2c address 
0x64 *is* a valid i2c address for a tuner.

I believe that 0x65 thru 0x6f can be removed.

Regards,

Mike