Re: AF9015 Dual tuner i2c write failures

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On 11 November 2011 23:16, Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 09:51 +1100, Jason Hecker wrote:
>> I concur.  I have been using Malcolm Priestly's patches with both my
>> AF9015 dual tuner cards (which are PCI but still look like USB to the
>> kernel) for a few weeks now and have (finally!) got consistently
>> perfect recordings in MythTV simultaneously with both tuners on a
>> card. Malcolm, when do you think you'll submit these patches to the
>> tree for inclusion?  Is there anything else to test?
>>
>> I agree about the power cycling.  Every time I reboot I disconnect the
>> AC supply for 20secs to be sure the cards are power cycled properly -
>> you do the same thing by pulling out the stick.
>
> Yes, this is what is holding up the patches to media_build.
>
> The bug appears to be a race condition that appears in get config with
> some usb controllers.
>
> Josu, your patch is for the older hg version on s2, so this will not
> work on media_build.
>
> I have being trying to a way to do it without the bus lock, but can't
>
> I will try and finish the patches tomorrow.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Malcolm
>
>

thanks for the quick responses guys! i look forward to the update.
since i'm new to this mailing list, and have only used v4l in
pre-configured linux distro's, how will this fix be distributed to
people - as a patch i presume?
are there any how-to's with prerequisites of whats required to apply a patch?
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