The dvb_frontend_ops is a pointer inside dvb_frontend. That's why every demod-driver
is having a field of dvb_frontend_ops in its private-state-struct and
using the reference for filling the pointer-field in dvb_frontend.
- It saves at least two lines of code per demod-driver,
- reduces object size (one less dereference per frontend_ops-access),
- be coherent with dvb_tuner_ops,
- makes it a little bit easier for newbies to understand how it works and
- avoids stupid mistakes because you would have to copy the dvb_frontend_ops
always, before you could assign the static pointer directly, which was
dangerous.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Some code had pointless gotos that just didn't make any sense. They didn't
make the code smaller, or faster, or easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Reassigning function pointers in a static led to infinite loops when using
multiple VP7045-based device at the same time on one system. Using kmalloc'd
copies for reassignments is better.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Add generalized dvb-usb driver which supports a wide variety of devices.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patrick Boettcher