Re: tda8290 regression fix

[Anders Thomson]

On 2012-11-15 21:43, Anders Thomson wrote:
> On 2012-10-01 18:56, Anders Thomson wrote:
> >  On 2012-09-23 23:06, Anders Thomson wrote:
> >  >   Awfully sorry about this. After having had the familty sit in and check
> >  >   the differences,
> >  >   I must say that the patch does not fix the issue. This time around I
> >  >   have x11grabs with
> >  >   ffmpeg to show if you want.
> >  >
> >  >   I'll be away from the card until the end of the coming week. Then, I'll
> >  >   bring out the multimeter...
> >  >
> >  >
> >  So, I got the multimeter working over the weekend and pretty much no
> >  results there. :-(
> >  I tested vanilla 3.5.3, w/ my patch, w/ your "tuner" patch. All three
> >  gave a (DC) reading of 0 to 30 mV (yes milli-). Given that the wiki page
> >  you referred to spoke of a few volts, I guess this is just noise. Coming
> >  to think of it, shouldn't any signal amplification done work on HF, so
> >  I'd have to measure the AC on the carrier freq or something? This
> >  multimeter is useless in the MHz range...
> >
> >  While at it, I created these 20 sec snippets:
> >  http://pickup.famthomson.se/output-vanilla.avi
> >  vanilla 3.5.3
> >
> >  http://pickup.famthomson.se/output-test3.avi
> >  This patch:
> >     # cat /TV_TEST3.diff
> >  diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-cards.c
> >  b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-cards.c
> >  index bc08f1d..98b482e 100644
> >  --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-cards.c
> >  +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-cards.c
> >  @@ -3291,7 +3291,7 @@ struct saa7134_board saa7134_boards[] = {
> >                    .radio_type     = UNSET,
> >                    .tuner_addr     = ADDR_UNSET,
> >                    .radio_addr     = ADDR_UNSET,
> >  -               .tuner_config   = 1,
> >  +               .tuner_config   = 0,
> >                    .mpeg           = SAA7134_MPEG_DVB,
> >                    .gpiomask       = 0x000200000,
> >                    .inputs         = {{
> >
> >  http://pickup.famthomson.se/output-card.avi
> >  This patch:
> >     # cat /TV_CARD.diff
> >  diff --git a/drivers/media/common/tuners/tda8290.c
> >  b/drivers/media/common/tuners/tda8290.c
> >  index 064d14c..498cc7b 100644
> >  --- a/drivers/media/common/tuners/tda8290.c
> >  +++ b/drivers/media/common/tuners/tda8290.c
> >  @@ -635,7 +635,11 @@ static int tda829x_find_tuner(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
> >
> >                    dvb_attach(tda827x_attach, fe, priv->tda827x_addr,
> >                               priv->i2c_props.adap,&priv->cfg);
> >  +               tuner_info("ANDERS: setting switch_addr. was 0x%02x, new
> >  0x%02x\n",priv->cfg.switch_addr,priv->i2c_props.addr);
> >                    priv->cfg.switch_addr = priv->i2c_props.addr;
> >  +               priv->cfg.switch_addr = 0xc2 / 2;
> >  +               tuner_info("ANDERS: new 0x%02x\n",priv->cfg.switch_addr);
> >  +
> >            }
> >            if (fe->ops.tuner_ops.init)
> >                    fe->ops.tuner_ops.init(fe);
> >
> >
> >  Would looking again at the specifics on the 2.6.25->26 transition be of
> >  any help? I expect some pain to go to such old kernel, but if I can add
> >  some printks somewhere, maybe that could help?
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >  -Anders
> >
> Hi Mauro,
>
> Picking up this thread again. Did you have chance to look into this?
>
> /Anders
Hi Mauro,

Any chance we can make progress on this one? As indicated, the patches 
you've proposed do not work. I have no idea why mine does though....

/Anders
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