Re: [PATCH RFC v3 5/7] v4l: enable some IOCTLs for SDR receiver

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 12/17/2013 05:40 PM, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> On 17.12.2013 09:34, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On 12/16/2013 11:08 PM, Antti Palosaari wrote:
>>> +	} else if (is_sdr) {
> 
>>> +
>>> +		if (is_rx) {
>>> +			SET_VALID_IOCTL(ops, VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT, vidioc_enum_input);
>>> +			SET_VALID_IOCTL(ops, VIDIOC_G_INPUT, vidioc_g_input);
>>> +			SET_VALID_IOCTL(ops, VIDIOC_S_INPUT, vidioc_s_input);
>>
>> Why would you want to enable these? Normal radio devices should never use
>> these, so why would sdr devices?
> 
> I though it might be good idea to select possible antenna input. I have 
> one rtl2832u prototype which has 2 physical antenna connector, but on 
> the real life input selection is not needed even on that case as 
> antennas are hardwired to different tuner inputs => selection is done 
> according to frequency. Almost all modern silicon tuners has multiple 
> inputs, whilst device has only one physical antenna connector.
> 
> All-in-all, it is not needed now and I can remove it without any noise 
> if you wish. It is trivial to add later if really needed.

Please remove it. If we need antenna input selection in the future, then
we have to look at this again.

Regards,

	Hans

--
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




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Input]     [Video for Linux]     [Gstreamer Embedded]     [Mplayer Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux