Re: DViCO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express I2C write failed

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:22:28AM -0800, VDR User wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Devin Heitmueller
> <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Can someone please look into this and possibly provide a fix for the
> >> bug? ??I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet after all this time but
> >> maybe it's been forgotten the bug existed.
> >
> > You shouldn't be too surprised. ??In many cases device support for more
> > obscure products comes not from the maintainer of the actual driver
> > but rather from some random user who hacked in an additional board
> > profile (in many cases, not doing it correctly but good enough so it
> > "works for them"). ??In cases like that, the changes get committed, the
> > original submitter disappears, and then when things break there is
> > nobody with the appropriate knowledge and the hardware to debug the
> > problem.
> 
> Good point.  My understanding is that this is a fairly common card so
> I wouldn't think that would be the case.  At any rate, hopefully we'll
> be able to narrow down the cause of the problem and get it fixed.
> 

Were there changes to i2c between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 that are missing
from the xc5000 driver?  If so, is there another driver that has the
required updates so I can look at what changed?  I would like to get
some traction on this but I really don't know where to start.

Thanks,
-- Mark
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