From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262233AbUBXLgc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:36:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262228AbUBXLgb (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:36:31 -0500 Received: from linux-bt.org ([217.160.111.169]:18836 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262233AbUBXLek (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:34:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update From: Marcel Holtmann To: Michael Hunold Cc: Andrew Morton , Michael Hunold , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> References: <10775702831806@convergence.de> <10775702843054@convergence.de> <20040223140943.7e58eb5c.akpm@osdl.org> <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077622455.2880.33.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:34:15 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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