[linux-dvb] [PATCH] Moving ALPS BSRV2 tuner handling code to separate file.

[Oliver Endriss]

Michael Krufky wrote:
> Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> 
> >Michael Krufky wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I think that this was a good idea, although the same exact thing could
> >>be done for all of the other drivers, potentially leading to the
> >>creation of many many more modules just for handling pll's ...
> >>    
> >>
> >It's not just about PLLs, different frontend modules can require
> >different register settings for symbol rate and other stuff even if they
> >use the same demod chip.
> >
> >I like this patch and I think it should be applied. It is a disadvantage
> >to have all the code and arrays duplicated in several drivers if we
> >could have it at a single place.
> >
> >>I would much rather see the pll definition moved into dvb-pll, and the
> >>pll_set function altered to use dvb_pll_configure.
> >>    
> >>
> >The code can still be changed to use dvb-pll afterwards without
> >unnecessary code duplication.
> >  
> >
> I can agree to that.  The same can be done for lg-h06xf, and many 
> others.  A lot of duplicated code could be removed, and I do agree that 
> this would be a step forward.  The only problem I see with this is that 
> we'll end up with many tiny little header files just like this one, 
> bsbe1.h and bsru6.h  ...  This isn't necessarily a bad thing either.  I 
> just didn't know if this is what we wanted to be doing. 

Well, when we started with bsbe1.h and bsru6.h the patches were posted
on this mailing list. Nobody complained...

> Would it make  
> sense to consolidate these small files into single source.[ch] files?  
> What do you think?

I don't like big files which contain lots of definitions which are not
needed by most drivers. That's why I'm not very happy with dvb_pll.c.

When editing a file there is always a small chance to introduce a random
bug somewhere in the file. In theory we have to re-test a driver
whenever we change a file which the driver depends on...

Small files will only affect those drivers which really need them.

I vote for one header file per tuner. It's both easier to maintain and
easier to understand for newbies. If you prefer we can move these files
to a subdirectory to keep them separate from the frontend drivers.

Later these definitions can be converted to use dvb_pll or whatever.
For now they save us hundreds of lines of duplicated code.

Imho this process should be continued step by step for all duplicated
tuner descriptions.

CU
Oliver

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