Hi folks, two weeks ago Twinhan provided me with an Alpha USB2.0-only DVB-T stick (VP7045) and specs for that device-type (thanks to Jennifer, Jeff and Jack). MagicBox II (VP7046) is identical. At a first glance it seemed, that it would be easy to add it to the dibusb-driver by just doing "some" quirks. It turned out to be the quirk-hell... unreadable code was the result. So I dropped the idea, but I still wanted to take benefit of the generic DVB-/ URB-/ I2C-/ input-/ firmware-stuff done in dibusb. I shouted: 'it is time for a dvb-usb-lib-module.' :). In dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb one can find what came out after two days of work. Currently the dvb-usb-lib and an (working) example-driver for the mentioned devices above can be found in it. (Remote control code is not ready yet). IMHO dvb-usb is a good basis to add support for new USB devices, because it's modular, flexible and extendable. The other goal is to rewrite all dibusb-drivers and the cinergyT2-driver to use the dvb-usb-lib. I don't know if it make sense to rewrite the ttusb-drivers to use dvb-usb-lib...? The flexcop-usb-driver already takes benefit of the abstract flexcop-device, so there should be no need to move it to dvb-usb. I invite everyone to comment and to help extending the dvb-usb-lib. thanks for your attention, Patrick. -- Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
