Re: [linux-dvb] S2API - Status - Thu Sep 11th

[Christophe Thommeret <hftom@free.fr>]

Le Sunday 14 September 2008 20:04:06 Christophe Thommeret, vous avez écrit :
> Le Sunday 14 September 2008 18:47:00 Steven Toth, vous avez écrit :
> > Steven Toth wrote:
> > > Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008, Steven Toth wrote:
> > >>> Christophe Thommeret wrote:
> > >>>> As far  as i understand, the cinergyT2 driver is a bit unusual, e.g.
> > >>>> dvb_register_frontend is never called (hence no dtv_* log messages).
> > >>>> I don't know if there is others drivers like this, but this has to
> > >>>> be investigated cause rewritting all drivers for S2API could be a
> > >>>> bit of work :)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> P.S.
> > >>>> I think there is an alternate driver for cinergyT2 actually in
> > >>>> developement but idon't remember where it's located neither its
> > >>>> state.
> > >>>
> > >>> Good to know. (I also saw your followup email). I have zero
> > >>> experience with the cinergyT2 but the old api should still be working
> > >>> reliably. I plan to investigate this, sounds like a bug! :)
> > >>
> > >> Holger was of the opinion that having the demux in dvb-core
> > >> was stupid for devices which have no hw demux, so he
> > >> programmed around dvb-core. His plan was to add a
> > >> mmap-dma-buffers kind of API to the frontend device,
> > >> but it never got implemented.
> > >>
> > >> Anyway, it's bad if one driver is different than all the others.
> > >
> > > Hmm, I didn't realize this, good to know.
> > >
> > > Now it's peaked my interest, I'll have to look at the code.
> > >
> > > The existing API should still work at a bare minimum, if it's not - it
> > > needs to.
> >
> > So I looked the the cinergyT2 code, that's a complete eye-opener. It has
> > it's own ioctl handler, outside of dvb-core.
> >
> > It's a good news / bad news thing.
> >
> > The good news is that this driver will not be effected by the S2API
> > changes, so nothing can break.
> >
> > The bad news is that this driver will not be effected by the S2API
> > changes, so it doesn't get the benefit.
> >
> > Regardless of S2API or multiproto, I see no reason why we shouldn't
> > bring this driver back into dvb-core.
> >
> > I don't have a device to test, but here's a patch (0% tested, with bugs
> > probably) that converts the module back to a regular dvb-core compatible
> > device, so the S2API would work with this. If anyone wants to test this,
> > and finds bugs - I won't get back to this driver for a couple of weeks -
> > so your patches would be welcome. :)
> >
> > Frankly, is S2API is selected for merge and we have enough users of the
> > current non-dvb-core driver, I'll probably re-write it from the spec.
> >
> > So much to do, so little time.
> >
> > - Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> as you expected, it's abit buggy and crashes at load ;)
> i've searched for the alternative cinergyT2 driver.
> it's available at: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~tmerle/cinergyT2/
>
> haven't tried it yet but will do (at least several people seems to have it
> working).

Have it working, not as good as Holger' one (often fails to lock) but it 
works, with both old and new api.
So, one problem less :)

-- 
Christophe Thommeret


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