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[ambrosa]

note that we do not need to add modules which are loaded as dependencies; just the bare minimum.
We probably do not need

kernel-module-tda18218
kernel-module-af9033
kernel-module-tda18218
kernel-module-mxl5007t
kernel-module-tua9001

Af9035 need 9033 and tda18218... Without them you have an error during the modprobe

D.

I confirm with kernel 2.6.31
You must install manually these drivers BEFORE af9035 or you get errors.
It looks auto install is not working: dependencies not set correctly ?

I need to verify the same problem with 3.0.3 : I had not time to make testing.

[pieterg]

ok, these are soft dependencies unfortunately, which depend on the hardware.
(when I modprobe, without the corresponding hardware, I can load the module just fine)

I'll autoload those deps as well.

[pieterg]

You must install manually these drivers BEFORE af9035 or you get errors.

That is going to be a problem, as we cannot really control the order in which modutils loads the modules (in alphabetical order).
And we cannot change the name of the modutils file, with the module_autoload clause...

[ambrosa]

You must install manually these drivers BEFORE af9035 or you get errors.

That is going to be a problem, as we cannot really control the order in which modutils loads the modules (in alphabetical order).
And we cannot change the name of the modutils file, with the module_autoload clause...

Yes, I've suppose this.
But it's not a real problem for expert user.
The problem is for newbie or normal user.
In my mind this can be solved with aa good documentation.
You have a Wiki. Open a new section named "USB DVB-T" and write into specific information about different DVB USB stick ? (i.e. I can write docs for A835)
If not, users must parse forum to solve their problems and this is wrong.

A question: why you don't include USB stick firmware file (.fw) in af9035 package ? For legal policy ?

[pieterg]

A question: why you don't include USB stick firmware file (.fw) in af9035 package ? For legal policy ?

we have no af9035 (meta-)package yet.
When we do, it will depend on the af9035 firmware.

[pieterg]

found a better solution to force the autoload order, this should probably work:

module_autoload_dvb-usb-af9035 = "af9033 mxl5007t tda18218 tua9001 dvb-usb-af9035"