[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Coding style for skystar2.c (both DVBand dvb-kernel)

[Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>]

Hello Holger,

> You can't use modprobe in the insmod.sh script, this would require to 
> install the driver in the system before.
Ah, ok. As a hardcore "dvb-kernel" users I tend to forget that. 8-)

> > So perhaps a small howto that tells the user which cards might have 
> > which frontends would be best. Most newer cards (for example the 
> > Twinhan) only have one supported frontend, so this would be easy.
>
> The twinhan driver is not really a generic frontend driver in the sense 
> that the code is reusable by other cards, the ioctl code could also get 
> implemented and registered directly in the twinhan bridge driver, this 
> would make i2c probing for this card obsolete at all - the i2c bus would 
> not even needed to get exported/registered to the DVB or kernel i2c 
> subsystem. The same for the DEC2000-T driver.
Hmm, isn't this the case already for the twinhan driver?

There is a generic dvb-bt8xx.o, the generic bt878.o and the on-in-all 
"frontend" driver "dst.o" specific for the twinhan cards.

> > The benefit would be that the user would get to know what frontend he 
> > actrually has... ;-)
> :) do you want to write this HOWTO?
No. 8-)

Perhaps there should be some "talkback agent" that submit the user 
configuration to "linux-dvb@linuxtv.org" via mail when he gets only. 
Just kidding... ;-)

> Holger
CU
Michael.



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