Em Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:00:22 +0200 Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> escreveu: > On 03.11.2013 11:56, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Hi Maik, > > > > Em Sun, 3 Nov 2013 01:31:04 +0100 > > Maik Broemme <mbroemme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > >> Added support for the NXP TDA18212 silicon tuner used by recent > >> Digital Devices hardware. This will allow update of ddbridge driver > >> to support newer devices. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/Kconfig | 9 + > >> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/Makefile | 1 + > >> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18212dd.c | 934 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18212dd.h | 37 ++ > > > > I'm not sure if support for this tuner is not provided already by one of > > the existing drivers. If not, it is ok to submit a driver for it, but you > > should just call it as tda18212. > > > > I'm c/c Antti, as he worked on some NXP drivers recently, and may be aware > > if a driver already supports TDA18212. > > Existing tda18212 driver I made is reverse-engineered and it is used > only for Anysee devices, which I am also responsible. That new tuner > driver is much more complete than what I have made and single driver is > naturally the correct approach. > > But one thing which annoys nowadays is that endless talking of > regressions, which has led to situation it is very hard to make changes > drivers that are used for multiple devices and you don't have all those > devices to test. It is also OK to remove my old driver and use that, but > then I likely lose my possibility to make changes, as I am much > dependent on new driver maintainer. That is one existing problem which > is seen multiple times during recent years... So I am perfectly happy > with two drivers too. I really prefer to have just one driver for each hardware component. That makes life easier at long term. Of course, the driver needs to be properly maintained. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
