[linux-dvb] Re: Regaining lock

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 12:47, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:32:13AM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 23:27, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 15:34, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > > > BTW, tda1004x in 2.6.6 won't load due to missing errno. I grabbed
> > > > > the patch from CVS. It looks like this hasn't been submitted for
> > > > > 2.6.7 yet - are there any plans to do that?
> > > >
> > > > The CVS tda1004x code uses the kernel firmware facilities now, so the
> > > > errno thing will vanish.
> > >
> > > Will that be going into 2.6.7?
> >
> > Afraid I don't know - I'm not involved with the release-to-linus cycle. I
> > think theres still work to do in the i2c stuff though - e.g. that stv0299
> > module load order bug, so probably not.
>
> I thought Michael fixed the load order bug in CVS?

I thought I saw it when I was doing the test with CVS head - the stv0299 
frontend didn't show up. I'll check again in case I was being stupid.

> Anyway, the frontends which are converted to use kernel I2C won't work
> for card drivers which don't implement a kernel I2C driver (e.g.
> skystar2, and probably the USB things). IOW, current CVS won't
> work for a lot of people. I hope that someone would show interest
> into bringing those drivers back to live...
>
> Currently that blocks submissions to Linux, so 2.6.7 will contain
> the same DVB stuff as 2.6.6 (probably even with the errno bug in
> tda1004x.c).

Yeah - can't help there unfortunately... only TT cards here.