Re: DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:49 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> If I understand it correctly, there are several drivers that only make 
> sense if they are used together. at76c651.c alone makes zero sense?
> This means it would be highly appreciated to have all parts inside the 
> kernel at some time in the future.

It makes sense if
- the dbox2 core code gets merged into mainline, which is our goal, but
  can take a huge amount of time.
- someone rips off the frontend module of a dbox2 and puts it on his
  PCI DVB card because this Atmel chip rocks so much :-)
  It will require only very few changes to the PCI driver...
- or a company decides to use this chip on their brand new DVB-C device
  and john doe decides to write a Linux driver for it. He will then
  notice that there is already a driver for the frontend module and can
  therefore save a lot of work.

> Something different:
> The atmel at76c651 frontend driver is specific to the MPC823 
> architecture?

no.

Regards,
Andreas