Re: [RFCv2 PATCH 0/5] tuner-core: fix s_std and s_tuner

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Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Second version of this patch series.
>>
>> It's the same as RFCv1, except that I dropped the g_frequency and
>> g_tuner/s_tuner patches (patch 3, 6 and 7 in the original patch
>series)
>> because I need to think more on those, and I added a new fix for
>tuner_resume
>> which was broken as well.
>
>Hi Hans,
>
>I appreciate your taking the time to refactor this code (no doubt it
>really needed it).  All that I ask is that you please actually *try*
>the resulting patches with VLC and a tuner that supports standby in
>order to ensure that it didn't cause any regressions.  This stuff was
>brittle to begin with, and there are lots of opportunities for
>obscure/unexpected effects resulting from what appear to be sane
>changes.
>
>The last series of patches that went in were in response to this stuff
>being very broken, and I would hate to see a regression in existing
>applications after we finally got it working.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Devin
>
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Its not a refactor; drivers are broken.  Hans noticed it when testing the newer hvr1600s analog tuner with a standard other than NTSC.

I appreciate that we don't want fixes now to break things, but the past changes did indeed break things.

Regards,
Andy
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