From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:52:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A841E.9090700@convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223140943.7e58eb5c.akpm@osdl.org>
Hello Andrew,
On 02/23/04 23:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> // read it!
>>- lseek(fd, tda10045h_fwinfo[fwinfo_idx].fw_offset, 0);
>>+ lseek(fd, fw_offset, 0);
>> if (read(fd, firmware, fw_size) != fw_size) {
> 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.
As I already mentioned in another mail, we want to go back to the kernel
i2c subsystem.
Currently, the stuff is running quite stable and is "in use".
Changing the i2c subsystem would require changes in all frontend drivers
+ plus in the dvb drivers exporting the i2c facilities.
Is such a big change acceptable for 2.6 if it fixes these horrible hacks
or is this 2.7 stuff?
CU
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 22:54 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 [this message]
2004-02-23 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 23:15 ` Ralph Metzler
2004-02-24 11:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
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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