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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:52:34 -0400 From: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@...nellabs.com> To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...nellabs.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL for 2.6.37-rc1] V4L/DVB updates On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> wrote: > The original code is broken, as it doesn't properly honour a max size of 8. > Even if we do some optimization at cx231xx, we still need to fix the tda18271 > code, as it is trying to use more than 8 bytes on some writes. > > Also, as you noticed, the way cx231xx sends large firmwares to xc5000 is a hack: > it requires to identify that the I2C device is a xc5000 and do an special > treatment for it. Yes, it does currently only get run if it's an xc5000, but I believe that code path could be used for *all* devices. There is no reason that it needs to be a hack as that behavior should be the default case (presumably Conexant just didn't want to retest against other devices). Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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