[linux-dvb] Re: refactoring

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Andrew de Quincey wrote:

> On Friday 08 Oct 2004 15:06, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>  
> > Yes, I've seen the code now.  Thats is a serve design bug.  The drivers
> > private data should not be public.  And it should be allocated and freed
> > by the driver itself and not by someone else.
> >    
> My take on this was that the demod drivers are meant to be as simple and as 
> small as possible. I didn't really see the point in hiding the private data 
> with this in mind.
>  
init tables, register config addresses and setup data are not private 
data, they need to be visible to the card driver because this is the one 
who is setting them up.

Holger