Re: dib0700 diversity support

[Nicolas Will <nico@youplala.net>]

Patrick Boettcher wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Nicolas Will wrote:
>
>> Patrick Boettcher wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>>>> I'll post a request for testing soon.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking forward to it.
>>>
>>> Can you please try the drivers from here: 
>>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pb/v4l-dvb/
>>>
>>> In the best case they improve the situation for you. In the worst 
>>> case (not wanted :) ) it will degrade. 
>>
>> Hi Patrick,
>>
>> Could you give us a summary of what changes are included in you tree, 
>> what we should expect, what we should test for and report on?
>
> Yeah, sorry, I'm not very professional:

booooo! ;o)

>
> Let's list first the commits:
>
> DiB8000: fix channel search parameter initialization
> DiB0700: add support for STK807XP and STK807XPVR
> DiB8000: added support for DiBcom ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb demodulator DiB8000
> DiB0070: Indenting driver with indent -linux
> DiB0070: Update to latest internal release
>
> As you can see, there are a lot of new things, the most important for 
> users of existing devices is the 'DiB0070: Update to latest internal 
> release' . This change should improve reception conditions for devices 
> based on the DiB0070-tuner (DiB7070P e.g) .

Fine.

Now, how do I measure this objectively so that I can give you meaningful 
results (before/after)?

My system is currntly working fine, using a hg clone from quite a few 
months ago, so if things are not directly visible...

>
> We tried this driver with our reference boards and it works well, but 
> sometimes DiBcom's customers are adding things, DiBcom is not really 
> aware of. That's why there is a risk that it breaks supports for some 
> cards. 

Well, breakage is easier to notice!

I can test on the Nova-T 500.

nico@favia:~$ lsmod | grep dib
dvb_usb_dib0700        54536  16
dib7000p               27400  1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib7000m               24964  1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dvb_usb                27148  2 dvb_usb_dtt200u,dvb_usb_dib0700
dib3000mc              22280  3 dvb_usb_dib0700
dibx000_common         12292  3 dib7000p,dib7000m,dib3000mc
dib0070                16772  1 dvb_usb_dib0700


Nico