2004-10-23 20:18:31

by Petr Vandrovec

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Subject: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

Hello,
what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1? I seem to have no
problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my hardware
definitely does not need any firmware to work.

I also do not understand why bttv depends on I2C and selects
I2C_ALGOBIT. Should not it depend on I2C_ALGOBIT instead, or
select both I2C and I2C_ALGOBIT. Doing it this way seems rather
strange to me.
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec


diff -Nru a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig 2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00
+++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig 2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@

config VIDEO_BT848
tristate "BT848 Video For Linux"
- depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && SOUND
+ depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && FW_LOADER
select I2C_ALGOBIT
---help---
Support for BT848 based frame grabber/overlay boards. This includes


2004-10-25 00:07:48

by Frédéric L. W. Meunier

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Subject: Re: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1? I seem to have
> no problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my
> hardware definitely does not need any firmware to work.

And here I ended without bttv support, maybe because I didn't
have FW_LOADER in .config ?

make oldconfig from a 2.6.9-rc4 .config to 2.6.10-rc1 just
removed bttv support.

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2004-10-25 01:51:47

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: Re: Why bttv depends on FW_LOADER?

On Saturday 23 October 2004 16:17, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>Hello,
> what is purpose of this change in 2.6.10-rc1? I seem to have no
>problems after removing dependency on FW_LOADER, and my hardware
>definitely does not need any firmware to work.
>
> I also do not understand why bttv depends on I2C and selects
>I2C_ALGOBIT. Should not it depend on I2C_ALGOBIT instead, or
>select both I2C and I2C_ALGOBIT. Doing it this way seems rather
>strange to me.
> Thanks,
> Petr Vandrovec

I'll second, third, or whatever place I have in the squawk line, this
squawk, bttv has been working just fine with the former config
settings. I'm on 2.6.9, but when I went to watch a little tv
tonight, tvtime had a blue screen, saying it couldn't
open /dev/video0. An lsmod didn't show videodev or bttv and the
modules do not exist in /lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/*. I don't have
any firmware to load, so this patch below needs to be reverted.

>diff -Nru a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
> b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig --- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
> 2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00 +++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
> 2004-10-23 22:09:21 +02:00 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>
> config VIDEO_BT848
> tristate "BT848 Video For Linux"
>- depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && SOUND
>+ depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && I2C && FW_LOADER
> select I2C_ALGOBIT
> ---help---
> Support for BT848 based frame grabber/overlay boards. This
> includes

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