From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:34:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077622455.2880.33.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de>
Hi Michael,
> > was there some plan to convert DVB over to using the firmware loader?
>
> Yes. But as I wrote in the mail to Christoph, we currently don't have a
> chance to use some in-kernel structure (pci device, i2c bus) that
> automatically exports the firmware loading magic through sysfs.
>
> Because of this, we would have to write our own sysfs backend for the
> dvb i2c subsystem, in order to get proper firmware loading support.
I don't know if this is the right way, but the atmel_cs driver uses this
workaround to make use of the firmware loader.
/* This is strictly temporary, until PCMCIA devices get integrated into the device model. */
static struct device atmel_device = {
.bus_id = "pcmcia",
};
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 21:04 [PATCH 0/9] LinuxTV.org DVB update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Update saa7146 driver core Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Minor DVB Skystar2 updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] DVB core update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Misc. DVB frontend updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] stv0299 DVB frontend update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] av7110 DVB driver update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] TTUSB-Budget " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:18 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 22:47 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 23:01 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 22:52 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 23:15 ` Ralph Metzler
2004-02-24 11:34 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-02-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-23 22:57 ` Michael Hunold
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