[linux-dvb] Re: mods to bt878.c

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > I added Gerd Knorr and Jamie to the CC: list, both are currently working 
> > on merging the analog and digital bttv driver, this problem is probably 
> > a pretty related issue.
>
> Yup.  Anyone had a look at the new bttv9 snapshots and the new gpio
> interface btw?  No response so far to the announcement ...
sorry, I had very limited free time last days, so I didn't looked yet 
into this code.

> > I suppose both btaudio.o and the bt8xx-dvb driver should only attach
> > to the cards they can handle for sure, this should be dependent on
> > both subvendor and device id.
>
> Problem is that many cards simply don't have a subsystem ID :-/
>
> These ones with Subsystem ID are pretty trivial to handle, adding
> a way to blacklist them in btaudio is just a few lines of code.
Maybe it might make sense to add a 'i2c-ping-table' to identify the 
cards: if it's e.g. possible to talk to chips at i2c adresses 0xXX, 0xYY 
and 0xZZ then we have probably card XXYYZZ...

Holger



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