[linux-dvb] Re: cx88 dvb modification

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>]

Gerd Knorr writes:
 > > The cx88 however, sets these to "cx88[0]" - which is unfortunately not
 > > useful for the above purpose - and theres no other way of doing it.
 > 
 > We should add one then.  For analog TV there is the tuner_type field
 > which is passed to tuner.o using some ->command() call.  We can (and
 > IMHO should) do that for digital tv cards as well, just matching the
 > name of the card is a bad idea.


Again, see my old implementation of using kernel i2c. It does
un-/registering at the right (non OOPS-happy) places and has a 
SET_TYPE call. This was all rejected and done differently.


Ralph