Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:43:46 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pvrxxx, linux code and modules Message-ID: <20070424001346.GF45246@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20704230529s706c50a9pa4716e74c2b04182@mail.gmail.com> References: <c39ec84c0704151508t126cf975gaa1957b9205d3244@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20704230529s706c50a9pa4716e74c2b04182@mail.gmail.com>
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--TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 23 April 2007 at 8:29:56 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > Here's a possibly silly thought - I don't remember if I've seen it or > not, pretty sure I haven't (and it's something I could actually write > the code for). > > For the tuner part of the module, rather than having the tuner data > stored in the driver binary, could we use a configuration file? It > seems that all the specific stuff for the tuner easily stored as pure > data (as demonstrated by the fact that the tuners are all stored in > rather simple structures, with a switch statement to determine which > tuner is read). I think that the Linux drivers do something similar to this, modulo kernel constraints. If it's really practical to have this in userland, having a proper configuration file makes a lot of sense. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGLUu6IubykFB6QiMRAm3GAJ9TfqO1/5F8qeSRNr3fWu71NLHiTwCdHU4V 2bZI1J5h1+aiFJ73HQA9hng= =oi1F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy--
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