From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from as-10.de ([212.112.241.2]:36099 "EHLO mail.as-10.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190Ab0HXIpR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:45:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.as-10.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FDC33A687 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.as-10.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (as-10.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kp9VsYbuVaKt for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gentoo.local (pD9E3C096.dip.t-dialin.net [217.227.192.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: web11p28) by mail.as-10.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 176AE33A669 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:21 +0200 From: Halim Sahin To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: bugreport: strange issues in tda8261 frontend (missing symbols etc). Message-ID: <20100824084521.GB8417@gentoo.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline List-ID: Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Hi List, 1. The module adds MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "Set verbosity level"); but doesn't declare the needed variables or uses this parameter somewhere. This ends in missing symbol when trying to specify that parameter when loading the frontend. 2. The module logs many lines when tuning to a new channel. This results in fast growing big logs in /var/log (several mb's ad a day). Here some lines of the log: Aug 24 07:23:57 vdr kernel: [44045.944177] tda8261_get_frequency: Frequency=1880000 Aug 24 07:23:57 vdr kernel: [44045.952037] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.132637] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.136747] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.138596] tda8261_set_state: Step size=1, Divider=1000, PG=0x798 (1944) Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.138883] tda8261_set_state: Waiting to Phase LOCK Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.160156] tda8261_get_status: Tuner Phase Locked Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.160163] tda8261_set_state: Tuner Phase locked: status=1 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.160168] tda8261_set_frequency: Frequency=1944000 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.160173] tda8261_get_frequency: Frequency=1944000 Aug 24 07:24:04 vdr kernel: [44052.168031] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.016717] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.021165] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.023052] tda8261_set_state: Step size=1, Divider=1000, PG=0x60c (1548) Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.023305] tda8261_set_state: Waiting to Phase LOCK Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.044169] tda8261_get_status: Tuner Phase Locked Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.044177] tda8261_set_state: Tuner Phase locked: status=1 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.044182] tda8261_set_frequency: Frequency=1548000 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.044187] tda8261_get_frequency: Frequency=1548000 Aug 24 07:24:09 vdr kernel: [44057.053034] tda8261_get_bandwidth: Bandwidth=40000000 Kernel 2.6.34 was used on that system. Thx. Halim