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

[Manu Abraham]

Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Michael Krufky wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Michael Krufky wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> 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.  Would it make
>> sense to consolidate these small files into single source.[ch] files? 
>>     
>
> I like small independent files.
>
> Btw. such a change has been proposed by me last summer and Johannes
> suggested using a common prefix like "fe-" although I'd vote for using
> "nim_".
>   

generally, the demod is called a NIM, and the entire tuner is called the 
frontend.
I think the "fe_" sounds more appropriate.