[linux-dvb] Re: refactoring

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > > We do.  Well, we don't really have to, but it would make several things
> > > easier when we'll use the existing infrastructure
> > >      
> > What things actually? I couldn't see anything beyond the firmware thing, and 
> > that is gone now.
> >    
> Have stuff visible in sysfs, firmware loads, powermanagement
> (suspend/resume), make the code easier to read for others by using
> the usual structures rather than inventing your own, ...
>  
Frontend devices are already visible through sysfs, check dvbdev.c. In 
order to allow firmware uploads via this interface we just need to pass 
a valid driver pointer instead of NULL to the registration function.

Holger