[linux-dvb] Re: CX88 i2c issue w/ DVB tuners

[Kenneth Aafløy <lists@kenneth.aafloy.net>]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 16:07, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 September 2004 14:03, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> > 
> > >Remember: i2c is a trivial protocol: two wires only and ususally 
> > >controlled by 3-8 registers on the host controller. Really nothing to 
> > >write tens of thousands of lines of code around it.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm wondering where you see those tens-of-thousands of lines, as the
> > i2c-core.c is about 1300 lines (including whitespace), of which
> > the smbus is around half. The object without any debugging compiled
> > for a athlon with smbus is around 26k, hardly a lot for a embedded device,
> > hmm?
> 
> everly little helps:
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>   17394 total

Does the dvb adapter/frontend drivers _really_ depend on all that?
Do you _really_ include all those drivers in a embedded kernel compile?

If so you'r _really_ including a lot of completly unrelated code.

Kenneth