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Ok, so "I've read this thread". Now, let me point out that if I had ANY code or interface whatsoever that I could use to control radio tuners that used some common interface, I would gladly do it. That was the main reason why I added support for controlling Radiator in RR, but as you know, radiator lacks a lot of features, still, it supports a considerable number of cards (even if obsolete). Then when it came to support other cards, I had different reasons to do it, but mostly it's a matter of users requesting (cause I personally love my good'ol HU):
-DLink (was popular at the time, only required a few lines of code)
-Cinergy600 (requested for RDS, and most of the code was provided)
-WinTV (requested because radiator drivers didn't support all FM tuners)
-HQCT (requested from many since it supports AM, plus code is available)
-Blaunpunkt (Hell, I didn't even do this one -- someone else did the code)
Similarly, someone else is working on the SiLabs tuner right now. I don't really care as long as I don't have to re-do anything, but hell, if you give me an interface and it has a driver that adds support to even just ONE tuner that we currently don't have, I'd definitely add support for it keeping in mind the possibility of the same interface supporting new tuners in the future.
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