/dev/dvb device nodes not being created?

[Chris Brown]

On 22/03/07, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:15:32AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> > What are we supposed to do when this kind of thing happens? It appears
> that
> > multiple drivers claim to support the same hardware.
>
> Grr, this happens far too often.  We have the same with for eg,
> orinoco and hostap right now.  The usual deal is that we either
> just build the 'best' driver for that hardware, or if there's a case
> where both drivers support the same hardware _and_ some hardware unique
> to them, we nobble the pci table so that the crappier driver
> doesn't load on that hardware.
>
> As to which is the best one in this case.. I really don't know.
>
> Or maybe this is a situation where it's valid to have both drivers loaded?
> We don't actually support that right now, but patches went to linux-pci
> list
> last week that should be showing up in GregKHs tree adding an alternative
> method for drivers to bind to a device in situations where it's possible
> for two drivers to drive different parts of the same chip.
> (This case has been showing up more and more recently too..
> agp vs edac, matroxfb vs lm_sensors,..)


Taking a look at:

http://lwn.net/Articles/212535/

which may be able to shed some light on the changes. Even with the blackbird
driver blacklisted, the v4l2 loads but the dvb driver does not. It should be
noted that the two co-exist peacefully when loaded but something is
preventing the latter from loading  - perhaps because the kernel "sees" the
driver requirements as being satisfied by the v4l2 module?

In any case, in this instance it is just that the cx88-dvb driver is failing
to load as opposed to anything more sinister.

Cheers
Chris

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