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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:35:24 +0200
From:	hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@...or.de>
To:	Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@...il.com>
Cc:	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for
	Opera S1- DVB-USB

Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 03:19 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham:
> hermann pitton wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 02:51 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham:
> >> Markus Rechberger wrote:
> >>> On 4/20/07, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@...il.com> wrote:
> >>>> hermann pitton wrote:
> >>>>> Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 00:55 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham:
> >>>>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >>>>>>> Em Qui, 2007-04-19 às 16:41 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu:
> >>>>>>>> Marco Gittler wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> this patch has applied the hints from mkrufky (dvb_attach,
> >>>>>>>>> firmware-naming)
> >>>>>>>>> and also one working rewrite of the i2c addresses stuff to fit the
> >>>>>>>>> kernel i2c reqs.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler<g.marco@...enet.de>
> >>>>>>>>> diff -r c8b73ec18b42 linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/opera1.c
> >>>>>>>>> --- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/opera1.c    Thu Apr 19
> >>>> 12:04:50
> >>>> 2007 -0300
> >>>>>>>>> +++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/opera1.c    Thu Apr 19
> >>>> 20:38:01
> >>>> 2007 +0200
> >>>>>>>>> @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
> >>>>>>>>>  #define REG_20_SYMBOLRATE_BYTE1 0x20
> >>>>>>>>>  #define REG_21_SYMBOLRATE_BYTE2 0x21
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> +#define ADDR_C0_TUNER (0xc0>>1)
> >>>>>>>>> +#define ADDR_D0_PLL (0xd0>>1)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't like these two #define's.  These i2c addresses need only be
> >>>>>>>> specified once, in the config structs / frontendfoo_attach calls for
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>> tuner / demod.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Better to just put them in as constants like all of the other dvb
> >>>> drivers.
> >>>>>>> I prefer the way it is. We should really avoid having magic numbers
> >>>>>>> inside the code. The alias here helps to know that 0x60 is tuner
> >>>> addres
> >>>>>>> and 0x68 the pll.
> >>>>>> Following a project's coding styles and conventions is "respecting" a
> >>>>>> project
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Manu
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> the other natural place for this should be the LKML to get more _good_
> >>>>> arguments, instead of hanging soon in some "respect" stuff again.
> >>>>
> >>>> DVB drivers generally have device addresses such as tuner_addresses and
> >>>> demod_adresses defined in a config struct least to prevent them from
> >>>> being global, wherever the header is included, since the very same
> >>>> device can have multiple addresses and so on, which are non-probable
> >>>> since being behind a repeater which is switched by a demod (private) and
> >>>> hence.
> >>>>
> >>>> Those are some of the reasons to follow a certain coding
> >>>> style/conventions. They are _not_ for fun.
> >>>>
> >>> cat *priv.h says something else too...
> >>> there are also many global register defines in DVB drivers, they just
> >>> don't include the register value in the define name.
> >>
> >> *_priv.h from what i understand means private .. i don't know what you
> >> make out from that.
> >>
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Manu
> > 
> > ;)
> > 
> > That means that I had to post the actual headers to every single tester
> 
> If you use a private header as a public header, of course yes. But that
> is not what private explicitly means.
> It _is_ indeed wrong to use a private header as a public header _even_
> for workarounds.
> 
> HTH,
> Manu

Forget it.

That is as wrong as older Fedora distros were shipping v4l2 apps like
tvtime, but only providing v4l1 headers on the user level.

If people would not have helped themselves out, all would be nice you
seem to say ...

I still pray, maybe it might happen soon ...

Cheers,
Hermann





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