[linux-dvb] Re: Example modifications to support request_firmware

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach writes:
>  > > But the latter is probably the better interpretation of the API 
>  > > intention and on the long term the only way I see to cleanly load 
>  > > firmwares into MPEG decoders or DSPs in STBs without PCI or USB or i2c 
>  > > bus (or any other bus with a predefined subsystem class in the 2.6 sense)
>  > 
>  > The i2c bus and devices in the DVB driver will have to be registered
>  > with the Linux device infrastructure if we ever want to have working
>  > power management (e.g. a STB with *real* standby). I believe that
>  > this is more work than sorting out the problems with the current
>  > kernel I2C implementation, and using that instead of our own.
>
> There even is a class entry (e.g. I2C_ADAP_CLASS_TV_DIGITAL)
> now for the I2C adapters.
An enum does not makes a well-designed API.

Holger



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