[vdr] Re: Fixed tuner lock detection

[Wolfgang Fritz <wolfgang.fritz@gmx.net>]

Dominique Simon wrote:
> Am Samstag, 23. Oktober 2004 19:05 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> 
>>Well, that still doesn't answer the question what exactly your patch
>>does that is _not_ in VDR 1.3.13. I'm afraid you'll need to isolate that.
> 
> 
> I didn't do the patch and i am not a programmer, just a ordinary user ;). The 
> original patch was posted some time ago on this mailinglist.
> 
> What about this:
> 
> +  /* discard stale events */
> +  dvb_frontend_event event;
> +  while (1)
> +  { 
> +    if (ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_GET_EVENT, &event) == -1)
> +      break;
> +  }
> 

I ran a similar code  plus an additional syslog output which should be
triggered in case of any "stale events" for quite a long time but I've
never seen any "stale events". I tested it with a 2.4 driver from CVS.

Wolfgang

> Could this be the cure to the distortions i described when switching channels? 
> If it is complete nonsense, i'll forget it, otherwise i would try to use your 
> lockfix-patch and put the above code in to try it out.
> 
> Ciao, Dominique
> 
>