From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:53722 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754968Ab1FITxl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:53:41 -0400 Received: from smtp02.web.de ( [172.20.0.184]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32EA1916626A for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:53:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [77.0.147.98] (helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp02.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1QUlIR-0004qr-00 for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF124C3.6020309@web.de> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:53:39 +0200 From: Jannis Achstetter MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: TechniSat SkyStar S2 / CX24120-13Z again Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: Hello list, I'd like to bring up the discussion about the "TechniSat SkyStar S2" PCI DVB-S2 card again. It has been asked once here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/20733 but was never answered. Information can be found here: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_S2 There is the mentioned binary driver. And s.o. made a patch against DVB s2-liplianin (http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin/) that adds support for the CX24120. It's not exactly a patch but a "run"-file with script-header and a tar-archive that extracts the patch and applies it directly. Until linux 2.6.39 I patched the s2-liplianin with the patch (extracted manually) and compiled the driver as module. This worked fine until 2.6.39 where the Big kernel lock (BKL) was dropped. Since then, the s2-liplianin doesn't compile anymore (not related to the CX24120-patch). Is the any chance to get it into mainline? Is there anything I can do but testing? Prepare a patch against mainline with everything needed to get the SkyStar S2 running? Best regards, Jannis