Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code | From | Andreas Oberritter <> | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:23:24 +0100 |
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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
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