this patch adds a new driver for the Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receiver. It
should also work for the identical ADS/Tech FM Radio Receiver (formerly
Instant FM Music) as soon as I find out the USB Vendor and Product ID.
The driver is inspired by several other USB and radio drivers, but mainly from
the D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio (dsbr100.c).
The USB stick currently has an Si4701 FM RDS radio receiver. But the other
Si470x devices are pin and register compatible, so that in the future the
driver can easily be patched to support these too. Therefore I named the
driver radio-si470x and the configuration option usb-si470x.
The driver itself just provides the control function over the radio. For
getting audio back, the device support the USB audio class, which is
implemented in the already existing driver.
I tested the driver in the last days, until it now satisfies all my
functionality and robustness requirements. The application I used for testing
was kradio.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
