[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel/stv0299 cvs >20040224

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

yes and we don't want low symbol rates not to work.

_J

In the new year, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2004 22:49, you wrote:
> > On Friday 12 March 2004 21:27, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> > > On Friday 12 March 2004 22:16, you wrote:
> > > > On Friday 12 March 2004 20:42, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > i've discovered that in cvs dvb-kernel above 20040224 tuning with
> > > > > mythtv is broken, but szap still works. The only difference between
> > > > > the two I can see is that szap uses FE_READ_STATUS, and mythtv uses
> > > > > FE_GET_EVENT to read the frontend status. Now, mythtv does indeed
> > > > > receive those events, but never with a status of |LOCK. What am i
> > > > > missing here? Is this a frontend bug, or application bug?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hauppauge Nexus-S (STV0299: BSRU6, TDQB-S00x)
> > > >
> > > > Odd; dvbtune (which uses the event interface) still works OK..... I
> > > > wonder what mythtv is doing differently.
> > >
> > > Doing some reading of the diff between 20040224 and 20040225 i noticed
> > > some changes to accomodate for FE_CAN_INVERSION_AUTO. Now, all my
> > > channels had been pre-set with INVERSION_OFF (because the mythtv dvb
> > > stuff is kind enough to warn about unsupported features of the frontend),
> > > and when I change this to INVERSION_AUTO all works well. So i guess it's
> > > a frontend bug then..
> >
> > Aha! Its a actually a bugfix which causes this.
> >
> > Previously the stv0299 frontend driver was always doing a nasty hack for
> > inversion which I removed, because it broke tuning to low symbol rate
> > channels.
> 
> And reinstated for 1.1.1, as in: 
> http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv0299.c?only_with_tag=LINUXTV-DVB-1_1_1
> 
> So, it's intentionally broken, or just a flop?
> 
> > Unfortunately the side effect is that if the inversion is set 
> > wrongly from the client side, it will not work.
> 
> Or are you actually arguing that my inversion setting is wrong to begin with?
> 
> One other point, you seem to ignore the already existing coding styles when 
> tabs is evaluated, please correct, as the code becomes rather ugly.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kenneth
> ke-aa@frisurf.no
> 
> 
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