Support TV - Proposal for F9 - enhanced DVB capabilities
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 17:23:15 UTC 2007
David Timms (dtimms at iinet.net.au) said:
> Looking further I notice that > modinfo dvb_bt8xx lists:
> filename:
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.ko
> license: GPL
> author: Florian Schirmer <jolt at tuxbox.org>
> description: Bt8xx based DVB adapter driver
> depends: bttv,bt878,i2c-core,dvb-core
> vermagic: 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS
> parm: debug:Turn on/off debugging (default:off). (int)
>
> Whereas for a network driver > modinfo tulip:
> filename: /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.ko
> version: 1.1.15
> license: GPL
> description: Digital 21*4* Tulip ethernet driver
> author: The Linux Kernel Team
> srcversion: 54B741F794FD4612A7C5AFD
> alias: pci:v00001414d00000002sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias: pci:v000014EAd0000AB08sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias: pci:v000010B7d00009300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias: pci:v000017B3d0000AB08sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias: pci:v00001737d0000AB08sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> ...
>
> Is it simply that these alias definitions need to be added to the driver; I
> might be able to do that myself ?
Yes.
> And that whenever newer boards are released using chip X that the driver
> for that chip needs to have a new alias added ?
Yes.
Bill
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