The lock_norm module parameter doesn't look terribly useful. If you don't want to change the norm, just don't change it. As a matter of fact, no other v4l driver has such a parameter. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hans, this goes on top of your v4l-dvb-zoran tree, if you like it. linux/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran | 3 +-- linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c | 20 -------------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 22 deletions(-) --- v4l-dvb-zoran.orig/linux/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran 2009-02-20 09:42:36.000000000 +0100 +++ v4l-dvb-zoran/linux/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran 2009-02-20 09:45:42.000000000 +0100 @@ -401,8 +401,7 @@ Additional notes for software developers first set the correct norm. Well, it seems logically correct: TV standard is "more constant" for current country than geometry settings of a variety of TV capture cards which may work in ITU or - square pixel format. Remember that users now can lock the norm to - avoid any ambiguity. + square pixel format. -- Please note that lavplay/lavrec are also included in the MJPEG-tools (http://mjpeg.sf.net/). --- v4l-dvb-zoran.orig/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c 2009-02-20 09:42:47.000000000 +0100 +++ v4l-dvb-zoran/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c 2009-02-20 09:45:42.000000000 +0100 @@ -163,10 +163,6 @@ const struct zoran_format zoran_formats[ }; #define NUM_FORMATS ARRAY_SIZE(zoran_formats) -static int lock_norm; /* 0 = default 1 = Don't change TV standard (norm) */ -module_param(lock_norm, int, 0644); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(lock_norm, "Prevent norm changes (1 = ignore, >1 = fail)"); - /* small helper function for calculating buffersizes for v4l2 * we calculate the nearest higher power-of-two, which * will be the recommended buffersize */ @@ -1497,22 +1493,6 @@ zoran_set_norm (struct zoran *zr, return -EBUSY; } - if (lock_norm && norm != zr->norm) { - if (lock_norm > 1) { - dprintk(1, - KERN_WARNING - "%s: set_norm() - TV standard is locked, can not switch norm\n", - ZR_DEVNAME(zr)); - return -EPERM; - } else { - dprintk(1, - KERN_WARNING - "%s: set_norm() - TV standard is locked, norm was not changed\n", - ZR_DEVNAME(zr)); - norm = zr->norm; - } - } - if (!(norm & zr->card.norms)) { dprintk(1, KERN_ERR "%s: set_norm() - unsupported norm %llx\n", -- Jean Delvare -- 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