On Fr, 2014-08-01 at 08:08 +0300, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > On 8/1/14 7:54 AM, Bjoern wrote: > > On Do, 2014-07-31 at 09:38 +0200, Ralph Metzler wrote: > > >> It is not like drivers are not available and supported, just > >> not in the mainline kernel tree. > > > > Right... and I hope that can be changed. I really really like the DD > > hardware I have, but always having to rebuild everything with a new > > kernel is just not my idea of how hardware should run in 2014 on Linux > > anymore. > > I have more than 30 ddbridge dvb-s devices and more than 30 dvb-c/t devices. > > The fact that the drivers are not in the main tree is the biggest problem > with these devices. The hardware is great (never had a problem with it) > but having to install experimental media build is just stupid. > > When I bought the devices I knew that the driver is not in the main tree > but I really hoped that this would change. Now 3 years later it is still > not the case. That's bullshit. > > Come on Digital Devices, you have the drivers, please, pretty please, submit > them upstream, go through the merge process and make us - our clients a > happy bunch. > > Like Bjoern said, it's 2014, you have the drivers, keeping them out > of main kernel and having your customers go through hoops to get them > working is not acceptable. > The biggest and most irritating problem for me is having to use external "experimental" drivers. And now I'm going ahead to make this situation at least a tiny bit better, at least I think it will be. My approach (for the moment): - Get the normal V4L code via git - Merge the patches based on Maik Broemme's suggested patches in November 2013 as well as Oliver Endresse's experimental driver into v4l - Create any patch files needed - automate the process so that end-users can simply enter some "update_v4l" command which would retrieve the updated git code, re-apply the patches and compile and install them - Patches would be updated if needed Doing this would allow us to at least be able to use the normal and current V4L code and to test it. Especially Georgi could a good resource here with his 30 devices. Secondly, this may help us get this code into V4L at some point. And thirdly, any DVB card that is supported in V4L but not in the experimental drivers will also work of course. So quite a few "pro" arguments here I guess? Right now I actually was able to compile the 0.9.10 ddbridge driver on a 3.15.8 kernel using V4L git code :) Took me 8 hours approximately... And yes, my DD Cine-S2 v6.5 actually reports all 4 DVB-S2 inputs available AND yes, I also have a picture :D So now I'll do the jump from 0.9.10 to the latest one available (0.9.15a). Once that is done I will give an update here - send me an email and I'll give you a link where you can get the patches from (unless that's also allowed here in the ML?). Yes, in the long term I would indeed also submit them here but I have ZERO knowledge how that is done here... Best regards, Bjoern -- 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
