Re: saa7134 and RDS

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Hi

> 
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:43:08AM +0100, hermann pitton wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Am Montag, den 02.03.2009, 13:33 +0900 schrieb Dmitri Belimov:
> >> > Hi All.
> >> >
> >> > I want use RDS on our TV cards. But now saa7134 not work with
> >> > saa6588. I found this old patch from Hans J. Koch. Why this
> >> > patch is not in
> >> mercurial??
> >> > Yes I know that patch for v4l ver.1 and for old kernel. But why
> >> > not?? v4l has other way for RDS on saa7134 boards?
> >>
> >> I think the patch got lost, because it was not clear who should
> >> pull it in. Likely Hartmut or Mauro would have picked it up in
> >> 2006 if pinged directly.
> >
> > The main reason was that at that time there was a conflict with the
> > i2c ir keyboard driver. I couldn't fix it immediately and was
> > occupied with different things afterwards. I don't know if saa7134
> > i2c got fixed in the meantime.
> >
> >>
> >> Please try to work with Hans to get it in now. There was also a
> >> suggestion to add a has_rds capability flag and about how to deal
> >> with different RDS decoders later, IIRC.
> >
> > Right. We should have a flag you could set to something like
> >   .has_rds = RDS_SAA6588
> > so that the rds driver could be loaded automagically.
> >
> > But I'm afraid I cannot spend much time on this work ATM, sorry.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hans
> 
> Dmitri,
> 
> I have a patch pending to fix this for the saa7134 driver. The i2c
> problems are resolved, so this shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Good news!

> The one thing that is holding this back is that I first want to
> finalize the RFC regarding the RDS support. I posted an RFC a few
> weeks ago, but I need to make a second version and for that I need to
> do a bit of research into the US version of RDS. And I haven't found
> the time to do that yet.

Yes, I found your discussion in linux-media mailing list. If you
need any information from chip vendor I'll try find. I can get it
under NDA and help you.

> I'll see if I can get the patch merged anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Hans

With my best regards, Dmitry.
 

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