P. van Gaans wrote: > Uwe Bugla wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 02:29:34 schrieben Sie: >>> Uwe Bugla wrote: >>>> Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 06:03:41 schrieb P. van Gaans: >>>>> I don't call myself a programmer (I've never seen any C guide), but >>>>> somehow I figured out how to add an extra switch to tzap to make it >>>>> print the status in (human-readable) decimal instead of hex. It is >>>>> attached. It would be really nice if this would make it into the >>>>> dvb-apps on linuxtv.. >>>>> >>>>> Talking about that, could anybody tell me the minimal and maximal >>>>> and/or >>>>> possible values for status, signal, snr, ber and uncorrected? If I >>>>> would >>>>> know them I could try to make the numbers more human-readable (eg >>>>> signal >>>>> ranging from 0 to 99 or so). >>>> Could you please redo that: >>>> - in patch format (=only the additions) >>>> - equally for tzap, czap, szap and femon? >>>> >>>> Thus everybody could take advantage from that idea. >>>> Would be a pleasure for us all if you did! >>>> >>>> My idea for further enlargement (a quite old idea of mine): >>>> route the human readable numbers into a speech recognition engine >>>> (festival) to make them auditable and thus real usable for DVB-S dish >>>> tuning f. ex. >>>> >>>> Note: If the DVB-S dish is far away from the machine (card), auditable >>>> signals are necessary. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> linux-dvb mailing list >>>> linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >>> In patch format.. Oh please.. I have no idea how to produce that! I >>> installed xxdiff, it perfectly shows what I've changed but I don't see >>> an option to save it to a patch file! >>> >>> You're lucky I've got a satellite dish so I should also be able to patch >>> szap and femon. I'll also produce a patched version of czap but my cable >>> card is not installed ATM and I don't feel like doing so (cable provider >>> is crap) but I'll probably get someone else on this list to test it. >>> >>> Please do not try to add the switch yourself without asking me if I'm >>> still working on it. Nobody needs double work. >>> >>> If somebody can tell me how to produce the so much wanted .diff files >>> I'll start working on it. >> >> A. Take the latest kernel patch (i. e. 2.6.21.1) as an example. >> B. format is as follows: >> --- a/(file to be changed) >> +++ b/(file to be changed) >> @@ -(starting line number),(total number of lines starting from the >> beginning line before the change) +(starting line number),(total >> number of lines starting from the beginning line after the change) >> (3 context lines starting with a space) >> (additions start with plus) >> (deletions start with minus) >> (3 context lines starting with a space) >> >> If this explanation still is too abstract, have a look at the example >> again. >> Don't forget to test the patch! >> No fuzz factors, no rejections please. >> For testing purposes keep the original file to be patched in a >> separate directory please. >> Now please give it a try - for sure you gonna make it! >> > > I've got an idea of how the .diff is constructed, but I simply refuse to > write them by hand. I've bought a computer NOT to do any more boring > repetitive work ;-). > > diff -urN oldfile.c newfile.c > lolwat.diff appears to work luckily. > > Tzap was patched already. > Szap patched, compiles, tested and OK. > Czap patched, compiles without errors, untested because I hate my cable > provider and the box I would have to install the cable card in is really > noisy and unstable. Whoever wants to test: please report results, czap > looks a little different from szap and tzap but I'm pretty certain it'll > work straightaway. I assume this is OK, you couldn't expect all linuxtv > developers to own cards for all DVB-systems anyway.. > Femon patched in a different way: Femon already has a "human readable" > switch, I just made BER and uncorrected show up as decimal instead of > hex in human readable mode. Adding another switch sounds pointless to me. > > The numbers/output seem to differ between devices and between szap and > tzap greatly so for now I'm not going to try to make them more > human-readable because of the possibility of breaking something. > > Everything attached. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb There was some confusion cause of Uwe, but will my switch ever make it to the dvb-apps on linuxtv? Or is there something wrong with it? _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
