(Leaving the original recipient list intact, although I'm not sure if I need to send to `linuxtv-commits@' as I don't keep up-to-date with much of anything...) On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Uri Shkolnik wrote: > [Uri S.] I'm attaching to this email an archive of patches. Hello Uri, and first let me thank you for making available the Siano Mobile Host-lib, as the header files included have answered most of the questions I had about using Siano devices in non-DVB-T applications. This does not mean that I've yet received and decoded any such signals, as Real Life[tm] has gotten in the way, but at least it has saved me from asking you stupid questions which were answered in the header file :-) But, back to the real subject of this mail: The patches you've supplied set a particular device major ID from the `available' range, that unfortunately has already been made use of by other services on a recent (sort-of) machine I'm using. I've already noted this in mail to the dvb@ mailing list, but it probably doesn't hurt to repeat this... Or maybe it does Anyway, here's a cut-n-paste or copy-n-paste or whatever is correct, from the patches you sent in the mail I'm replying to... +/*! Holds the major number of the device node. may be changed at load +time.*/ +int smschar_major = 251; The problem is that there is no guarantee that on a full-functional Linux system, this major number is actually free. For me, it wasn't. I would imagine that changing this will adversely affect any embedded-product vendors, or the like, who today can happily use this major number... Anyway, thanks to the library you provided me and associated files, I see there's a simple script that creates the devices, which presumably the SMS library accesses by name, not number, and this can be hacked in my case to match reality. However, I'm not sure if this can be a solution in the general case. Given the scarcity of major numbers, I can't expect there to be a major dedicated to these devices, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone could come up with some magic to make use of a DVB major number for alternative non-DVB-T access to these products. (This probably would require making public the ten- or-so lines of the script that creates the alternative access dev thingies, which shouldn't violate your IP much) That might break plug-in compatibility with devices which today depend on major 251 being free, but such is life, eh? Sorry for any typos or errors in grammar or logic, I'm typing this in total darkness in an unheated room, and the amount of not-freebeer I've consumed to try to keep warm has probably somehow affected my ability to ``think'' as it were. Maybe. Plus I can't see the keyboard... cheers*hic*prost*hic*skaal*hic*nazdravie*hic* barry bouwsma -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
