[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

[Kenneth Aafløy <lists@kenneth.aafloy.net>]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 21:08, Holger Waechtler wrote:
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> Also non-i2c hardware like 8-bit parallel uC-busses, SPI busses and even
> 1-wire busses are common.
>
> 8-bit parallel and SPI-interfaces are usually used in chipsets shipped
> by U.S. manufacturers like Motorola and Broadcom. Even if the name
> dvb_i2c was a little misleading this code did not implemented anything
> specific to i2c -- you could simply rename every dvb_i2c_bus occurence
> to dvb_uC_bus.
[snip]

Thanks for the info.

[snip]
> well -- I still can't see the deep reason for this, the recent patches
> usually added ~20-100 lines of code complexity to each file, so where is
> the point of "getting rid" of something?

There wasn't that much complexity added was there? The bulk of the patches was 
replacing dvb_i2c with i2c_adapter.

> wouldn't it be better to replace the from-scratch list-and-device
> handling in dvb_i2c.[hc] by the driver/bus infrastructure in 2.6 that
> provides the same functionality and to rename every dvb_i2c occurence by
> dvb_uC in order to mirror the additional flexibility of this code?

I'm not sure anymore..does anyone else have an oppinion on this before I do 
the rest of the conversions?

Kenneth