[linux-dvb] make dvb-pll probe for device presence

[Manu Abraham]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> That's what you get for doing random i2c bus writes...
> (But I guess no dvb/i2c card has such an EEPROM, AFAIK they are
> only used in IBM Thinkpads on the system monitoring smbus.)
>   

Rather than just those alone, there are cases where bttv (random writes) 
overwrites the EEPROM contents on some DVB cards as well. There have 
been quite a lot of reports on the linux-dvb ML earlier. Many people 
thought that it was the hardware just went up in smoke, but it wasn't 
the hardware.


IMHO, a random write should never be attempted.


Manu