On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/24/2012 04:49 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Antti Palosaari<crope@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/24/2012 06:41 AM, Hawes, Mark wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a HVR 4000 hybrid card which provides both DVB-S2 and DVB-T >>>> capabilities on the one adapter. Using the current media tree build >>>> updated >>>> with the contents of the linux media drivers tarball dated 22/01/2012 >>>> the >>>> drivers for this card are still generating two frontends on the adapter >>>> as >>>> below: >>>> >>>>> Jan 23 12:16:44 Nutrigrain kernel: [ 9.346240] DVB: registering >>>>> adapter 1 frontend 0 (Conexant CX24116/CX24118)... >>>>> Jan 23 12:16:44 Nutrigrain kernel: [ 9.349110] DVB: registering >>>>> adapter 1 frontend 1 (Conexant CX22702 DVB-T)... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I understand that this behaviour is now deprecated and that the correct >>>> behaviour should be to generate one front end with multiple >>>> capabilities. >>>> Can this please be corrected. >>> >>> >>> >>> Same applies for many other devices too. For example some older Anysee E7 >>> models have two chip and two frontends whilst new one have only one. Also >>> TechnoTrend CT3650 and Hauppauge WinTV. >>> >>> Maybe it those are implemented later as one frontend, it not clear for >>> me. >> >> >> The merging of frontends is something that is only done if there are >> multiple modulation types on the same demodulator chip. As the >> HVR-4000 has separate demods for DVB-T versus DVB-S2, they will always >> be represented by two separate frontends (for the foreseeable future). >> >> In other words, the recent work doesn't apply to this card (and others >> like it). > > > So what was the actual benefit then just introduce one way more to implement > same thing. As I sometime understood from Manu's talk there will not be > difference if my device is based of DVB-T + DVB-C demod combination or just > single chip that does same. Now there is devices that have same > characteristics but different interface. Yes, you are right. I had a very preliminary patch to handle this, Will post it soon. Regards, Manu -- 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
