From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 7of9.schinagl.nl ([88.159.158.68]:57916 "EHLO 7of9.schinagl.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751605Ab3GXV4d (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:56:33 -0400 Message-ID: <51F04D8E.5050208@schinagl.nl> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:56:30 +0200 From: Oliver Schinagl Reply-To: oliver+list@schinagl.nl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antti Palosaari CC: Krishna Kishore , Chris Lee , "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: stv090x vs stv0900 support References: <7CC27E99F1636344B0AC7B73D5BB86DE1485FEE5@exgmbxfz01.sasken.com> <51F01477.7050202@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <51F01477.7050202@iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/24/13 19:52, Antti Palosaari wrote: > On 07/24/2013 08:21 PM, Krishna Kishore wrote: >> My opinion is that, it is better to have only stv090x. Apart from minimizing the number of patches and ease of maintenance, it will avoid the confusion that I had When I started using prof 7500. I had to enable stv0900 and stb6100. I got confused on whether to enable stv0900 or to enable stv090x. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Chris Lee >> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:09 PM >> To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: stv090x vs stv0900 support >> >> Im looking for comments on these two modules, they overlap support for the same demods. stv0900 supporting stv0900 and stv090x supporting >> stv0900 and stv0903. Ive flipped a few cards from one to the other and they function fine. In some ways stv090x is better suited. Its a pain supporting two modules that are written differently but do the same thing, a fix in one almost always means it has to be implemented in the other as well. >> >> Im not necessarily suggesting dumping stv0900, but Id like to flip a few cards that I own over to stv090x just to standardize it. The Prof >> 7301 and Prof 7500. >> >> Whats everyones thoughts on this? It will cut the number of patch''s in half when it comes to these demods. Ive got alot more coming lol :) >> >> Chris > > > stv0900 is better separated from the tuner whilst stv090x has weird > stv6110x_devctl structure. That's why I used stv0900 for anysee driver. > I wonder is there something special supported by stv090x because normal > tuner/demod callbacks are not enough. That's probably for the ddbridge driver, while ours is pretty old (0.5) Ralph/oliver is working on 0.9 atm. 0.8.6 still uses the same structure i think. > > regards > Antti >