Fwd: Device no longer handled by em28xx kernel drivers

Fwd: Device no longer handled by em28xx kernel drivers

[Frank Schäfer]

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Am 18.04.2013 21:04, schrieb Michael .:
> Hi
>
> I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly.

Issues like this should always be discussed on the linux-media mailing
list, so please CC it in the future.
Neither I'm the em28xx maintainer nor do I know much about issues/things
that happened in the past.

> I have a USB device which I was surprised to find is no longer handled
> by the driver:

What does "no longer handled" mean ?
What was the last kernel that supported this device ?

>
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ccd:0072 TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy Hybrid T
>
> I believe the hardware is em28xx + zl10353 + xc5000 as I can see my
> precise hardware being detected by em28xx in dmesg output here:

Yes, according to http://linux.terratec.de/tv_en.html it uses em2882+xc5000.

>
> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/terratec_cinergy_xs
>
> As I understand there might have been two parallel drivers being
> developed.

I never heard of a second driver.

> I just wondered if there is any chance of this support being
> re-instated for this particular one?
> I am surprised to find that a device has gone from supported to
> unsupported!

I don't know. The em28xx driver is generally the right driver and it
already supports other devices with the xc5000 tuner.
If support for this device has really been removed a while ago, then
there must have been good reasons...

Mauro, Devin ?

Regards,
Frank

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael.

Re: Fwd: Device no longer handled by em28xx kernel drivers

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em 23-04-2013 12:40, Frank Schäfer escreveu:
> (forwarding to the linux-media mailing list) (2nd try)
>
>
> Am 18.04.2013 21:04, schrieb Michael .:
>> Hi
>>
>> I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly.
>
> Issues like this should always be discussed on the linux-media mailing
> list, so please CC it in the future.
> Neither I'm the em28xx maintainer nor do I know much about issues/things
> that happened in the past.
>
>> I have a USB device which I was surprised to find is no longer handled
>> by the driver:
>
> What does "no longer handled" mean ?
> What was the last kernel that supported this device ?
>
>>
>> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ccd:0072 TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy Hybrid T
>>
>> I believe the hardware is em28xx + zl10353 + xc5000 as I can see my
>> precise hardware being detected by em28xx in dmesg output here:
>
> Yes, according to http://linux.terratec.de/tv_en.html it uses em2882+xc5000.
>
>>
>> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/terratec_cinergy_xs
>>
>> As I understand there might have been two parallel drivers being
>> developed.
>
> I never heard of a second driver.
>
>> I just wondered if there is any chance of this support being
>> re-instated for this particular one?
>> I am surprised to find that a device has gone from supported to
>> unsupported!
>
> I don't know. The em28xx driver is generally the right driver and it
> already supports other devices with the xc5000 tuner.
> If support for this device has really been removed a while ago, then
> there must have been good reasons...
>
> Mauro, Devin ?

It is hard to discuss without seeing the entire thread.

I don't remember having any USB ID removed from the driver.

In any case, it is likely easy to add support for it. It is just
a matter of capturing the logs from the other driver using
the usbmon interface, and checking for the specific bits needed
to make this device work.

This is described at:
	http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bus_snooping/sniffing

In summary, once compiled v4l2-utils, it should do:

	$ cd contrib/
	$ ./parse_tcpdump_log.pl --pcap |./parse_em28xx.pl

eventually, if the device is not at usbmon1, you may need
to do:

	$ ~/parse_tcpdump_log.pl --list-devices
	usbmon2 ==> Camera (level 1)
	usbmon2 ==> USB2.0 Hub (level 1)

To list where the device is inserted, and then pass the --devices
to capture data on a different interface, like:

$ ./parse_tcpdump_log.pl --device usbmon2 |./parse_em28xx.pl

Regards,
Mauro