Hi Hans,
It's me again, sorry.
Sören wrote to me that he dislikes the idea of driver specific
headerfile and will refuse to maintain the driver if there is any change.
I can't tell more, I'm just the messenger, sorry.
Regards,
Stefan
On 02.02.23 22:26, Stefan Herdler wrote:> Hi Hans, Sören,
On 02/02/23 10:43, Soeren Moch wrote:
Hi Stefan, Hans,
On 02.02.23 00:12, Stefan Herdler wrote:
Hi Hans, Sören,
On 01/02/23, 10:15 Hans Verkuil wrote:
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Once it is converted to vb2 the driver can stay.
Note that the driver might need a bit more work: we use the
v4l2-compliance
utility to test V4L2 API compliance of a driver, and after the vb2
conversion the driver should pass this test. So the compliance test
might
find some other things that do not work as they should, and it would be
really good to clean that up as well. Usually the things it finds are
pretty
easy to fix.
For the records, as long I remember it:
The "Buget Patch" driver is superfluous and can be removed.
This driver is for an experimental hardware-mod which never really
worked. No such hardware was ever produced.
I was really surprised to see it.
I own such card, as I wrote earlier. The budget patch works great and is
necessary for such cards. Please keep it.
I think you confused it with is successor "fullTSmod" which works great
indeed.
The support for the "fullTSmod" is implemented in the "dvb-ttpci" kernel
module.
The "Buget Patch" driver is an separate kernel module.
From Kkonfig:
config DVB_BUDGET_PATCH
[...]
Support for Budget Patch (full TS) modification on
SAA7146+AV7110 based cards (DVB-S cards). This
driver doesn't use onboard MPEG2 decoder. The
card is driven in Budget-only mode. Card is
required to have loaded firmware to tune properly.
Firmware can be loaded by insertion and removal of
standard AV7110 driver prior to loading this
driver.
I my self own and operate a card with "fullTSmod" too. An I did some
mods for others.
I never loaded the "Buget Patch" driver.
And the kernel module it isn't loaded on my VDR. I checked it right now
again.
I removed the "budget-patch.ko" and everything kept working like usual.
Ill keep an eye on it.
Regards,
Stefan
Regards,
Soeren
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