Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: Stradis driver conflicts with all other SAA7146 drivers

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:01 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:58:59AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > 1) Integrate your code and Nathan one;
> > 
> > 2) create a generic handler for all saa7146 boards, moving all PCI probe
> > to the newer module. After detecting the card number, it should request
> > the specific module.
> 
> #2 breaks some existing setups that build modules to load based on the PCI
> tables or built initrds this way. 

not if you make this meta module depend on the other two, that way all
this infrastructure will just pull the right stuff in.. at the price
of some wasted memory for the one you don't need

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