linux-kernel - Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] DVB

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Message-ID: <44D21FDA.4090303@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:10:02 +0400
From:	Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mchehab@...radead.org,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	b.buschinski@....de
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] DVB_CORE must select I2C

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:56:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ...
>> Changes since 2.6.18-rc2-mm1:
>> ...
>> +dvb-core-needs-i2c.patch
>> ...
>>  DVB fixes
>> ...
> 
> This means people who observed a compile error will now have the DVB 
> support silently removed from their kernel.
> 
> Please replace it with the patch below.


DVB_CORE should never depend on I2C, the reason being DVB_CORE does not
use anything of I2C but, the drivers which depend on I2C should be made
depend on I2C. That would be the right way to go.


Manu
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