Re: bttv module intialization takes much time on kernel-2.4.x

Adrian Cox (adrian@humboldt.co.uk)
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:18:47 +0000


Gerd Knorr wrote:

> RTFM?
>
> Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README says:
>
> If bttv takes very long to load (happens sometimes with the cheap
> cards which have no tuner), try adding this to your modules.conf:
> options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1

This is a nuisance on embedded systems which don't use modules, and
which don't have tuners. I've ended up maintaining a local patch to
force this on. It affects every user of i2c-algo-bit, but nothing else
on this particular board suffers as a consequence.

What might be useful would be a config option to build bttv without
tuners and i2c to reduce code size and sidestep this problem. Would you
take a patch that did that?

-- 
Adrian Cox   http://www.humboldt.co.uk/

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