[pvrusb2] driver status; incompatible change coming...

[Mike Isely]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:

> Quoting Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:
>
>>
>> The horrible, disgusting, sick trick with the tveeprom structure worked
>> (see preceding thread).
>>
>> I've verified that the pvrusb2 driver works with kernel versions 2.6.12,
>> 2.6.13, and even 2.6.14, and it is using updated modules from ivtv 0.4.0.
>> I've tried various combinations of using ivtv-provided modules (e.g.
>> tuner.ko, tveeprom.ko, etc) versus using v4l-provided modules from the
>> kernel sources and all combinations I have tried work correctly.  Yay!
>>
>> I need to write up a description of this tveeprom mess somewhere.  Once
>> that is done I'll release a new driver snapshot.
>
>
> Ok great job once again :)
> Did you ask V4L people about this API problem ?
> Xavier.

I know they are trying to bring ivtv and V4L together; I suspect this sort 
of problem is already known.  I'm writing up an HTML page about this now. 
If it makes enough sense I'll probably point a few people at it.

   -Mike

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