Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Michael,

> > was there some plan to convert DVB over to using the firmware loader?
> 
> Yes. But as I wrote in the mail to Christoph, we currently don't have a 
> chance to use some in-kernel structure (pci device, i2c bus) that 
> automatically exports the firmware loading magic through sysfs.
> 
> Because of this, we would have to write our own sysfs backend for the 
> dvb i2c subsystem, in order to get proper firmware loading support.

I don't know if this is the right way, but the atmel_cs driver uses this
workaround to make use of the firmware loader.

	/* This is strictly temporary, until PCMCIA devices get integrated into the device model. */
	static struct device atmel_device = {
	        .bus_id    = "pcmcia",
	};

Regards

Marcel


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