Re: PATCH: extra switch for zap (developers?)

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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.
>>>>
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>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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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?

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