[pvrusb2] New driver snapshot: pvrusb2-mci-20070428

Mike Isely isely at isely.net
Sat Apr 28 16:48:27 CDT 2007



I should have also added this little tidbit.  See this URL:

  http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/usage.html

And look for the description about ir_mode to learn how to disable IR 
reception.

  -Mike


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Mike Isely wrote:

> 
> A new pvrusb2 snapshot is available.  Mainly this is a bunch of little
> things, plus the ability to disable IR reception, and some tweaks for
> PAL-60 support.  Change history:
> 
>   (+) Implement module option to prevent IR reception on a per
>       instance basis.  This is useful in situations where there are
>       multiple tuners and we only want to designate one tuner as the
>       one with the IR receiver.
> 
>   (+) Implement a few encoder tweaks to better support PAL-60.
>       Changes are from Servaas Vandenberghe.
> 
>   (+) Stop using sysfs class attribute owner fields for kernels newer
>       than 2.6.21.  This is apparently no longer needed for newer
>       kernsl and kernel developers are trying to get rid of this
>       entanglement.
> 
>   (+) Fix build issue in 2.6.21; a feature had been patched in that I
>       had not expected until 2.6.22.  Thanks to Mark Brand for
>       spotting and fixing this.
> 
>   (+) Reorganize pvrusb2-options.h a bit for better maintainability.
> 
>   (+) Convert usage of a semaphore into a mutex (a mutex is more
>       efficient).  This comes from a kernel janitor.
> 
> As usual, the pvrusb2 web site can be found at:
> 
>   http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html
> 
>   -Mike
> 
> 

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