[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6 request_firmware and frontends

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 16:17, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > I just spent a while trying to figure out how I would go about using the
> > 2.6 request_firmware() calls for the tda1004x driver. As far as I can
> > see, its impossible right now.
> >
> > The problem is you have to pass a struct device* into request_firmware()
> > to tell the kernel which device you are. Frontend drivers have no idea of
> > which physical device they are attached to.
>
> we could move the 'struct dvb_device *dvbdev' member from the struct
> dvb_frontend_data to struct dvb_frontend, then it would get passed
> directly to the ioctl.
>
> maybe the cleanest and simplest solution.

Hmm, this wouldn't give us access to the struct device* for the hardware 
backing the dvb_device... we'd still need to add it in somewhere.


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