[linux-dvb] Support of Nova S SE DVB card missing

[Patrick Boettcher]

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> Btw, I don't understand Patrick's workaround.

The Flexcop i2c-interface is not very flexible. You cannot send just a 
single write request with an independent read request following.

The same problematic applies for several USB-I2C requests as we have it in 
dvb-usb at several places.

In addition (see my other mail in that thread), sending two independent 
i2c_transfers which actually belong together is not really safe. (However 
I understand that for most single-receiver boards it is no real problem, 
as long as no one is using this i2c-adapter from user-space at the same 
time.)

Patrick.

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