From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965105AbXCAO3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:29:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965115AbXCAO3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:29:10 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53343 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965104AbXCAO3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:29:06 -0500 Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, domi.dumont@free.fr, Jiri Slaby , bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian , venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:29:04 +0100 From: "Uwe Bugla" Message-ID: <20070301142904.29930@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: patch 1 / 3: fix broken documentation for bt8xx cards To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org X-Authenticated: #8359428 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+KaHI6zwiKkElb3jvsSxi7JjPaOdhTChUxar6P8Y V6He1gasPAuUGedl42Hs+6wxM= Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi folks, although this patch is fine and necessary it has been blocked and ignored for months by the following so-called "maintainers" who are a tall order and a shame for the whole linux community: a. Manuel Abraham b. Mauro Carvalho Chehab I vote for excluding Manuel Abraham from maintainership, as we all need communicatable, reliable and accurate maintainers, no mismatches! This patch fixes the documentation for dvb-bt8xx cards, synchronizing it to the actual state of kernel development. Please sign-off or ack this only in connection with the DST deselection patch (i. e. patch 2 / 3) Written and Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -9,9 +9,33 @@ Please see Documentation/dvb/cards.txt => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge: Compiling kernel please enable: -a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" +a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)" -b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" +b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Video Capture Adapters" => "BT848 Video For Linux" +c.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" + +Please use the following options with care as deselection of drivers which are in fact necessary +may result in DVB devices that cannot be tuned due to lack of driver support: +You can save RAM by deselecting every frontend or DST module that your DVB card does not need. + +First please remove the static dependency of DVB card drivers on all frontend modules for all possible card variants by enabling: +d.) "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Load and attach frontend modules as needed" + +If you know the frontend driver that your card needs please enable: +e.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Customise DVB Frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" + Then please select your card-specific frontend module. + +Do you use one of the following cards? +1. Twinhan DST (FTA and CI) family (DVB-S/C/T/ATSC) +2. Pinnacle PCTV SAT CI +3. Chaintech DST-1000 +4. DNTV Live ! + +If not you can save additional RAM by enabling: +f.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" + "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" => "Customise DST support" => "Customise DST modules to build" + Then please deselect "DST module" and "DST CA module" 2) Loading Modules ================== @@ -68,7 +92,7 @@ $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv. -In case of further problems send questions to the mailing list: www.linuxdvb.org. +In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to the mailing list: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org. Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, P. S.: "There are two things that are infinite and endless: The human stupidity and the universe. While I am sometimes doubting about the universe I am damn sure as far as the human stupidity is concerned." ALBERT EINSTEIN -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/topmail-out