Bug 156861

Summary:	Modaliases for dvb?
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 6
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Description Andreas Gruenbacher 2006-03-10 00:16:07 UTC

AFAICT, the dvb package only makes sense if a DVB card is present in a system. Would it make sense to use modalias tags (see bug 155303, bug 155357) to define when the package should get installed?

Comment 1 Torsten Duwe 2006-03-10 10:27:32 UTC

This is true. However, the dvb package provides the drivers for 2.4 series kernels; as they are synched with 2.6.

Besides that, the relationship between hardware and drivers is not bijective; as many of the DVB chips currently in use (Philips and old Brooktree / Conexant) are merely data pumps, and require either a DVB driver or an analog TV (frame grabber) driver to interpret the incoming data properly. Newer chips only currently hit the market (new Conexant, SkyStar) that are unambiguously DVB.

Conclusively, the dvb package (for 2.4 kernels ;-) _requires_ one of the to-be-listed PCI IDs, but it would be dangerous to trigger on all of these.

So, 1. does this qualify for a Modalias list? and 2. is this relevant at all because of the old kernel dependence?

Comment 2 Andreas Gruenbacher 2006-03-10 13:29:02 UTC

Fixed; see bug 156864.