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From: Gerd Knorr (kraxel@bytesex.org)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 04:06:38 EST

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> Actually it does in some cases. I know of two devices that have analog
> tuners on an smbus-like interface (OV511 USB TV and W9967CF USB TV). The
> tuner can be controlled using a pair of i2c_smbus_write_byte_data()
> calls.

Hmm, maybe we should rename the SMBUS class to SENSORS or MAINBOARD or
something like that? I assumed you smbus interfaces are used for
mainboard sensors only ...

> Would a patch that adds smbus algorithm support to tuner.c be
> acceptable?

Yes. Certainly makes more sense than duplicating the whole rest of
tuner.c just for a smbus-aware tuner driver ;)

Gerd

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