On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:58:21PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/07/2005 09:15 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >while packaging ivtv 0.3.x I found two things:
> >
> >a) the required tuner.ko modle (for PVR 150/500) will conflict with
> >  v4l's tuner module. Just like for msp3400 I renamed it for the rpms
> >  to tuner-ivtv.ko. So you need alias tuner tuner-ivtv in your
> >  modprobe.conf file to get ivtv's tuner.

> As of right now, the indexes for both of the new tuners in tuner-ivtv 
> have already been used--i.e., in ivtv's tuner.h:
> 
> #define TUNER_LG_PAL_TAPE_PVR150       51
> #define TUNER_PHILIPS_FM1216ME_PVR150  52
> 
> in the V4L tuner.h:
> 
> #define TUNER_PHILIPS_FM1256_IH3   51
> #define TUNER_THOMSON_DTT7610    52

That's bad, we should ask Gerd for assigning two slots before grabbing
them. :/

> Merging the msp3400 changes into the official msp3400 module was (the 
> beginning of--we're not yet done with that one) a step in the right 
> direction.  Starting to distribute our own tuner module is a giant leap 
> in the wrong direction.  (Apologies to Neil Armstrong.)

The tuner module in ivtv is transitional. It should get shaped into
something we can submit to Gerd, and kept during a transition phase
(which, if support for 2.4 is dropped, will be small). 
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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