On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Steven Toth <st...@kernellabs.com> wrote: >> Can any one shed some light on this? I appreciate it's not a linux or >> indeed linux-media specific issue as the hardware itself is designed >> this way. > > i2c gates exist to isolate the downstream components from any spurious > RF noise generated by noisy components on the i2c bus. You don't want > to couple demod noise into the tuner by default.
Steve (Kerrison), I would take Steven Toth's explanation as more authoritative than mine any day of the week. It's possible that I may have been misinformed regarding the rationale for why the gate is required. Regards, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
