Re: Future of the SAA7146 drivers

[Stefan Herdler <herdler@nurfuerspam.de>]

Hi Hans,

It's me again, sorry.

Sören wrote to me that he dislikes the idea of driver specific
headerfile and will refuse to maintain the driver if there is any change.

I can't tell more, I'm just the messenger, sorry.

Regards,
Stefan



On 02.02.23 22:26, Stefan Herdler wrote:> Hi Hans, Sören,
>
> On 02/02/23 10:43, Soeren Moch wrote:
>> Hi Stefan, Hans,
>>
>> On 02.02.23 00:12, Stefan Herdler wrote:
>>> Hi Hans, Sören,
>>>
>>> On 01/02/23, 10:15 Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Once it is converted to vb2 the driver can stay.
>>>>
>>>> Note that the driver might need a bit more work: we use the
>>>> v4l2-compliance
>>>> utility to test V4L2 API compliance of a driver, and after the vb2
>>>> conversion the driver should pass this test. So the compliance test
>>>> might
>>>> find some other things that do not work as they should, and it would be
>>>> really good to clean that up as well. Usually the things it finds are
>>>> pretty
>>>> easy to fix.
>>>>
>>> For the records, as long I remember it:
>>> The "Buget Patch" driver is superfluous and can be removed.
>>> This driver is for an experimental hardware-mod which never really
>>> worked. No such hardware was ever produced.
>>> I was really surprised to see it.
>> I own such card, as I wrote earlier. The budget patch works great and is
>> necessary for such cards. Please keep it.
>>
> I think you confused it with is successor "fullTSmod" which works great
> indeed.
>
> The support for the "fullTSmod" is implemented in the "dvb-ttpci" kernel
> module.
> The "Buget Patch" driver is an separate kernel module.
>
>  From Kkonfig:
> config DVB_BUDGET_PATCH
>      [...]
>        Support for Budget Patch (full TS) modification on
>        SAA7146+AV7110 based cards (DVB-S cards). This
>        driver doesn't use onboard MPEG2 decoder. The
>        card is driven in Budget-only mode. Card is
>        required to have loaded firmware to tune properly.
>        Firmware can be loaded by insertion and removal of
>        standard AV7110 driver prior to loading this
>        driver.
>
> I my self own and operate a card with "fullTSmod" too. An I did some
> mods for others.
> I never loaded the "Buget Patch" driver.
> And the kernel module it isn't loaded on my VDR. I checked it right now
> again.
>
> I removed the "budget-patch.ko" and everything kept working like usual.
> Ill keep an eye on it.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Soeren
> [...]