David Timms (dtimms(a)iinet.net.au) said:
1. auto detect / load of drivers:
I would be great if the bootup process would detect that the user has a dvb
tuner card and load the driver(s) without intervention {even once}.
Currently I can # modprobe dvb_bt8xx to get the kernel driver loaded.
This can be manually inserted into /etc/modprobe.conf , but with the
hal/udev packages, I assume it is possible for the detection of the card on
the pci bus during bootup to be the trigger to cause the module to be
loaded.
Assuming the driver is correctly written, it should happen automatically.
Failure to automatically load for any PCI/USB device is a driver bug.
Bill