From: Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@posteo.de>
To: JPT <j-p-t@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: technisat-usb2: i2c-error
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141011174525.30fde69f@vdr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5437B048.4090100@gmx.net>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:09:12 +0200
JPT <j-p-t@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Am 09.10.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Boettcher:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> >> What exactly do the i2c-errors mean?
> >
> > I can't tell you exactly what happens in the device, but I can tell
> > you that I have the same problem with my device on my PC sometimes.
> >
> > In addition to this I2c-failures from time to time the box is quite
> > sensitive regarding: repowering, replugging and host-rebooting.
> > This is a USB-device-firmware problem which makes the device crash
> > and all subsequent USB-transfers are failed. Reloading the module
> > or replugging the device will make it work again.
>
> That's bad news. Could you please add this info on the Wikipage?
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Technisat_SkyStar_USB_HD
>
> > How many days without interruption did you use the device?
>
> Well, this was about 2 days and 1.5 ;) recordings
Matches my experience.
> > I was following quietly you're discussion with Antti. Has someone
> > taken care of the your changes regarding the transfer-size?
>
> No. Since I don't understand anything about what I did ;)
Could you resent the changes figured out by you and Antti ? (ideally in
a form of a patch).
> And I don't know the process of officially working on the kernel...
> (Just wondered if I will ever learn that much about kernel
> programming;)
There you can be helped: http://eudyptula-challenge.org/
> > I think it should included.
>
> Then someone with more insight should change the buffers and create a
> patch. o.O
Create the patch, I will try it with my box and when it's ok after some
time we'll get it in.
regards,
--
Patrick.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 17:27 technisat-usb2: i2c-error JPT
2014-10-09 15:26 ` Patrick Boettcher
2014-10-10 10:09 ` JPT
2014-10-11 15:45 ` Patrick Boettcher [this message]
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