Messages in this thread | | | From | Ralph Metzler <> | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:15:07 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update |
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Michael Hunold writes: > 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.
I converted back to using normal i2c a long time ago (as soon as I was "free to") but nobody ever was interested ... You can see how to do it in my DVB drivers, at least for the cards I am supporting.
Ralph
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