From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from www.youplala.net ([88.191.51.216]:56780 "EHLO mail.youplala.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753750AbZHRKhP (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:37:15 -0400 Received: from [134.32.138.65] (unknown [134.32.138.65]) by mail.youplala.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4E7ED880C8 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:36:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A8A844B.4020701@youplala.net> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:59 +0100 From: Nicolas Will MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: dib0700 diversity support References: <1250177934.6590.120.camel@mattotaupa.wohnung.familie-menzel.net> <1250244562.5438.3.camel@mattotaupa.wohnung.familie-menzel.net> <4A8A6FBB.6020007@youplala.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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