Ok, got it. I just thought it was replacing the current driver with the new one - and that seemed to be it. Didn't know there was such a lot of work left before it's merged :o Sorry and good luck! -Bjoern On Sa, 2014-08-23 at 17:05 +0300, Antti Palosaari wrote: > Moikka > That patchset is simply far away from merge. Tons of issues to be fixed. > It is huge amount of work to get that all in. I could estimate one month > full time work even my experience is not enough. And I simply don't want > to waste that much money from my pockets, it is many thousand euros. So > I do it, if I do, on my schedule. > > There is many separate issues which needs to be done. It is not > something one people should do all. For example mainlining that > DVB-T/T2/C/C2 demod driver. Another thing is DVB-C2 API, which is not > much coding, but a lot of specification. You need to read and > *understand* DVB-C2 spec and on some level other specs (mostly DVB-T2) > in order to add missing pieces correctly to DVB API. If you are not > coder, start here. > > > Antti > > > > On 08/23/2014 02:50 PM, Bjoern wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It's been 3 weeks since these patches were submitted - have they been > > merged yet? If not - what's the problem? Who has to check this? > > > > I'm not the only one longing for driver updated support of ddbridge "by > > default", and it would really be nice if there was some "progress" here. > > Antti did a lot of work here for all us ddbridge users. > > > > Regards, > > Bjoern > > > > On Sa, 2014-08-02 at 06:48 +0300, Antti Palosaari wrote: > >> After cold power-on, my device wasn't able to find DuoFlex C/C2/T/T2 > >> Expansion card, which I added yesterday. I looked old and new drivers > >> and tried many things, but no success. Old kernel driver was ages, > >> many years, behind manufacturer current Linux driver and there has > >> been a tons of changes. So I ended up upgrading Linux kernel driver > >> to 0.9.15a (it was 0.5). > >> > >> Now it is very near Digital Devices official driver, only modulator > >> and network streaming stuff is removed and CI is abusing SEC like > >> earlier also. > >> > >> Few device models are not supported due to missing kernel driver or > >> missing device profile. Those devices are based of following DTV > >> frontend chipsets: > >> MaxLinear MxL5xx > >> STMicroelectronics STV0910 > >> STMicroelectronics STV0367 > >> > >> > >> Tree for testing is here: > >> http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/anttip/media_tree.git/log/?h=digitaldevices > >> > >> regards > >> Antti > >> > >> > >> Antti Palosaari (5): > >> cxd2843: do not call get_if_frequency() when it is NULL > >> ddbridge: disable driver building > >> ddbridge: remove driver temporarily > >> ddbridge: add needed files from manufacturer driver 0.9.15a > >> ddbridge: clean up driver for release > >> > >> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cxd2843.c | 3 +- > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/Makefile | 2 - > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c | 3175 +++++++++++++++++++--------- > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-i2c.c | 232 ++ > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-regs.h | 347 ++- > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge.c | 456 ++++ > >> drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge.h | 407 +++- > >> 7 files changed, 3518 insertions(+), 1104 deletions(-) > >> create mode 100644 drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-i2c.c > >> create mode 100644 drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge.c > >> > > > > > -- 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
