[pvrusb2] driver status / update

[Carsten Meier]

Am Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:48:41 -0600 (CST)
schrieb Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Carsten Meier wrote:
> 
> > Am Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:25:30 -0600 (CST)
> > schrieb Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Carsten Meier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Am Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:00:42 -0600 (CST)
> > > > schrieb Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:
> > > > > I looked at the bus_info question, and I've been convinced.
> > > > > I've made a change now that puts the driver serial number
> > > > > into the bus_info V4L capability field.
> > > > 
> > > > Cool. Thanks a lot.
> > > 
> > > Bad news.  The v4l-dvb maintainer has rejected the patch that
> > > enabled putting the driver serial number into the bus_info
> > > field.  His reasoning is the same as what I had previously given
> > > when you first asked.
> > > 
> > > So now you need to convince him, not me.  I've already pointed
> > > him at the earlier discussion thread.
> > 
> > I've started a thread for this on the v4l-list:
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/video4linux-list/2009-January/msg00291.html
> 
> Sorry I didn't reply quicker.  I'm really having a bad day today.  
> Multiple problems have suddenly happened (nothing to do with
> pvrusb2), including a pending massive disk failure on my mythtv
> backend no thanks to Seagate and their crappy firmware.  (Two
> replacement Western Digital drives are now on order and I have to
> quickly back up the remains of the still-working degraded RAID array
> before a second drive fails - and there is another drive in there
> with the known-bad firmware so it's just a matter of time...)  I
> might be unable to progress on the pvrusb2 driver tonight because of
> this.  But I digress.
> 
> Anyway, Mauro is trying to unify the mailing lists.  There a new
> list, linux-media which is hosted at vger.kernel.org.  Anything
> involving the previous 3 lists (video4linux, linux-dvb,
> v4l-dvb-maintainer) is theoretically instead supposed to be discussed
> on the one new list.  Of course, for now it's just ANOTHER list and
> since now lots of stuff is being cross-posted the net effect is just
> the opposite :-(
> 
> I already started this discussion on linux-media and Mauro has posted
> a reply describing what you really need to do for this.  (Plus
> there's another pvrusb2 change I have to implement to make this
> possible and right now I'm not sure how to do it.)  You may want to
> go find an archive for it and read the thread.  Just find the most
> recent post from me and backtrack from there.
> 
>   -Mike
> 

Hi,

OK, I subscribed to linux-media. Mauros solution is also not right I
think. Hope my post gets there, because I have some trouble with
majordomo. Now I'm arguing on three lists ;)

Regards,
Carsten