From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:37978 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753181Ab1CFM6o convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:58:44 -0500 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so3373611fxm.19 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:58:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:51:33 +0100 From: Steffen Barszus To: Manu Abraham Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patches an media build tree Message-ID: <20110306135133.693758ab@grobi> In-Reply-To: References: <4D31A520.2050703@helmutauer.de> <4D333AF2.8070806@redhat.com> <20110305164309.1796daad@grobi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT List-ID: Sender: On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:23:11 +0530 Manu Abraham wrote: > Hi Steffen, Hi Manu , thx for the reply :) > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Steffen Barszus > > Manu , Mauro please comment ! Thanks ! > > > > Avoid unnecessary data copying inside dvb_dmx_swfilter_204() > > function 2010-08-07      Marko Ristola           Under Review > > Refactor Mantis DMA transfer to deliver 16Kb TS data per interrupt > >        2010-08-07      Marko Ristola           Under Review > > > I had tried this patch a while back, but due to some reason it was > causing a complete freeze at my side: it could have been due to a > different version of the bridge or so, But it wasn't really easy on my > side to ascertain that. That time looking at the patch it wasn't easy > to identify the reason as well. I need to retry the same again, with a > cooler head as to see what happens. That would be good, as far as i remember - the issue is, without these patches the driver crashes after a while caused by vdr's excessive use by EIT scanner. So it can only be used without EPG scan enabled. With that it was running stable. There have been a few different patches floating around to address this issue. > > [v2] V4L/DVB: faster DVB-S lock for mantis cards using stb0899 demod > >        2010-10-10      Tuxoholic               Under Review > > > > I was under the assumption that this issue was fixed in the right way, > with the fix being applied to the stb6100 driver sometime back. Was > your test with that fix in ? Think i did not put it into relation. Let me get to the users of the cards, to test the current dkms [1] w/o any patches and confirm back to you whats current situation It was this one: commit f14bfe94e459cb070a489e1786f26d54e9e7b5de Author: Manu Abraham Date: Sun Nov 14 15:52:10 2010 -0300 [media] stb6100: Improve tuner performance right ? Kind Regards Steffen [1] Test version of the dkms, need to remove above named patches tomorrow. Will remove the above patches again for testing, then its except for a small fix for more then on TT S2 1600 plain media_tree. https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/testing-vdr/+packages?field.name_filter=v4l-dvb-dkms&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=