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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] DVB build fails without I2C
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:17:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157894226.4359.10.camel@praia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4502DA2F.5050905@gmail.com>

Em Sáb, 2006-09-09 às 19:13 +0400, Manu Abraham escreveu:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Recommended solution:  Add I2C as a dependency (or select) in DVB Kconfig.
> DVB-CORE does not depend on I2C, since it does not rely on any I2C at
> all. (DVB-CORE can use other methods) It is the PCI bridges that depend
> on I2C.
Yes. There are even a few dvb drivers that doesn't depend on I2C.
>  IIRC, we had a patch adding I2C dependencies for the Kconfig for
> the relevant bridge chips. The frontends which are connected to the
> bridges, depend on DVB-Core and I2C. So that dependency exists.
> 
> frontends foo
> depends on DVB_CORE && I2C
> 
> pci bridges foo
> depends on DVB_CORE && I2C && PCI
> 
> Maybe that patch has not made it yet to mainline.
No, it didn't arrived mainstream. It arrived only -mm series. The patch
depends a previous patch that added DVB attach support. Somebody offered
to backport it to 2.6.18 at #v4l channel (I'm not sure but I think it
was adq).

Cheers, 
Mauro.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-10 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-09 10:55 DVB build fails without I2C Jeff Garzik
2006-09-09 15:13 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Manu Abraham
2006-09-10 13:17   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2006-09-10 15:16     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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