There are some devices, like Terratec Cinergy HTC, where while the device supports analog TV, the driver is not capable yet of handling it, because the analog TV driver was not written. So, don't bind the em28xx-v4l drivers on such devices. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c b/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c index 2001c9c14784..ec4e95119877 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c @@ -3468,7 +3468,7 @@ static int em28xx_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, /* save our data pointer in this interface device */ usb_set_intfdata(interface, dev); - /* allocate device struct */ + /* allocate device struct and check if the device is a webcam */ mutex_init(&dev->lock); retval = em28xx_init_dev(dev, udev, interface, nr); if (retval) { @@ -3484,6 +3484,15 @@ static int em28xx_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, try_bulk = usb_xfer_mode > 0; } + /* Disable V4L2 if the device doesn't have a decoder */ + if (has_video && + dev->board.decoder == EM28XX_NODECODER && !dev->board.is_webcam) { + printk(DRIVER_NAME + ": Currently, V4L2 is not supported on this model\n"); + has_video = false; + dev->has_video = false; + } + /* Select USB transfer types to use */ if (has_video) { if (!dev->analog_ep_isoc || (try_bulk && dev->analog_ep_bulk)) -- 2.5.0 -- 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