[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW

[Wolfgang Thiel <w-thiel@gmx.net>]

Sorry for doing a probably very silly reply (without having had a look
at the source as well):

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:09:50AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du dimanche 27 juin 2004, vers 22:49,
> Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr> disait:
> 
> > In a system with 4 DVB cards, I sometimes get a EOVERFLOW error when
> > trying to read from the card. I have raised MAX_EVENTS with no
> > success. How can I prevent this ?
> 
> I have slightly modified the kernel to get some debug output :
> 
> dmxdev: buffer overflow (len: 188, free: 188)
> dvb_dmxdev_ts_callback [415]: overflow
> ...
> The first line happens because len>=free in dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write in
> dmxdev.c. The second line happens when coming back in
> dvb_dmxdev_ts_callback.
>
Have you tried len>free in dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write, not >=?


Wolfgang