On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Patrick Rother wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote:
> > > Patrick Rother wrote:
> > >> For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make
> > >> vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers.
> > >>
> > >> I have:
> > >>
> > >> root@vdr:/dev/dvb# ls -l
> > >> total 0
> > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/
> > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter1/
> > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter5/
> > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter6/
> > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter7/
> > >> root@vdr:/dev/dvb#
> > >>
> > >> But vdr uses only the first two devices.
> > >>
> > >> Is there any easy possibility to patch the code accordingly?
> > >
> > > ./vdr -D 0 -D 1 -D 5 -D 6 -D 7
> >
> > I'm afraid this won't work, because VDR stops scaning for DVB devices
> > as soon as it hits a gap.
> >
> > You might want to try changing this function:
> >
> > bool cDvbDevice::Initialize(void)
> > {
> > int found = 0;
> > int i;
> > for (i = 0; i < MAXDVBDEVICES; i++) {
> > if (UseDevice(NextCardIndex())) {
> > if (Probe(*cDvbName(DEV_DVB_FRONTEND, i))) {
> > new cDvbDevice(i);
> > found++;
> > }
> > else
> > NextCardIndex(1); // skips this one <=========== changed line
> > }
> > else
> > NextCardIndex(1); // skips this one
> > }
> > NextCardIndex(MAXDVBDEVICES - i); // skips the rest
> > if (found > 0)
> > isyslog("found %d video device%s", found, found > 1 ? "s" : "");
> > else
> > isyslog("no DVB device found");
> > return found > 0;
> > }
> >
> > Untested, don't know if it will actually work as expected.
>
> I will test this and let you know.
>
> Thank you!
This seems not to work.
Does anybody have another idea?
Thank you.
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