> 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. -- Steven Toth - 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
