Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 bttv-driver.c][4/8] convert pci_find_device to pci_dev_present

[Gerd Knorr]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:23:53AM +0200, Tonnerre wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:03:44PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I think this check should just go away completely.  
> > We don't have such silly warnings in any other driver.
> 
> Kraxel introduced this  check because of the confusion  with the "old"
> and "new" WinTV cards. The older one had a bt848 chip, the newer one a
> connexant 878, and only the older one was supported by Linux.

Yep, that was the reason.  It's pretty much obsolete these days through
as we have a working (well, sort of, depending on the tv norm sound may
be a problem ...) driver for these cards in mainline.  Just dropping
that now is perfectly fine.

  Gerd

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