[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>]

Johannes Stezenbach writes:
 > from their attach_adapter() function. However, if the frontend driver
 > is loaded after the i2c adapter driver, but before the DVB driver,
 > registration would fail. To solve this I would need a second list
 > to keep track of known-but-not-yet-registered frontends. Not difficult
 > to do, but awful.
 > 
 > Maybe that's what Ralph means when he says "reimplement the whole dvb_i2c layer"?
 > 

Yes, because that is basically what it does, keep lists of drivers and
busses and call their respective init routines on registration. 
They would just be replaced by frontends and adapters.
And that is also about the same as what the kernel I2C layer does ...


Ralph