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Laurent Pinchart
f41ced8f10 Check fops_get() return value
Several subsystem open handlers dereference the fops_get() return value
without checking it for nullness.  This opens a race condition between the
open handler and module unloading.

A module can be marked as being unloaded (MODULE_STATE_GOING) before its
exit function is called and gets the chance to unregister the driver.
During that window open handlers can still be called, and fops_get() will
fail in try_module_get() and return a NULL pointer.

This change checks the fops_get() return value and returns -ENODEV if NULL.

Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Kay Sievers
763d19bb90 V4L/DVB (10172): add DVB_DEVICE_TYPE= to uevent
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-01-03 10:50:31 -02:00
Darron Broad
2fac9a0f44 V4L/DVB (9916): dvb-core: don't add an event when in ONE SHOT mode for algo type HW
It has been noticed that in HW tuning mode in cx24123.c that
a check is made to not alter the status var when in one shot
mode, a simpler solution is to not update here for all cards.

Cc: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-30 09:39:16 -02:00
Hans Verkuil
b7496780e8 V4L/DVB (9504): dvbdev: fix typo causing 2.6.28 compile error
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:26 -02:00
Stephen Rothwell
ac2657c10c V4L/DVB (9490): linux-next: v4l-dvb tree build failure
Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c: In function 'dvb_register_device':
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:254: error: implicit declaration of function 'nums2minor'

Caused by commit f3d9182030d9655d9ffff33dfceb45b4a127b6ec ("V4L/DVB
(9361): Dynamic DVB minor allocation") which clearly has not even been
built with CONFIG_DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:25 -02:00
Kay Sievers
a5f4c0ce68 V4L/DVB (9473): add DVB_DEVICE_NUM and DVB_ADAPTER_NUM to uevent
This allows udev to create proper device nodes without any
hacky shell scripts/programs to call, which guess these numbers
from the kernel device names.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:24 -02:00
Andreas Oberritter
5dd3f30710 V4L/DVB (9361): Dynamic DVB minor allocation
Implement dynamic minor allocation for DVB, to allow more than four
devices of the same type per adapter, based on drivers/usb/core/file.c.

Add a new config option, DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS, to make use of this
feature, which defaults to no for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Marco Schluessler
9962ac5331 V4L/DVB (9480): Fix frontend DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM Search
Issue: Currently, the DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM is called only at the first tuning.
After the first call, the status is never set to force a new tuning.

Signed-off-by: Marco Schluessler <marco@lordzodiac.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Manu Abraham
f04c3ca8a2 V4L/DVB (9478): Fix: parameters not supplied in the search process
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Matthias Schwarzott
f7c9bf96ad V4L/DVB (9477): Fix: Commit 9344 breaks tning of cx24123
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Arvo Jarve
7bcbdf386b V4L/DVB (9345): Add event with changed status only
Signed-off-by: Arvo Jarve <arvo@softshark.ee>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Manu Abraham
c59e7870fd V4L/DVB (9344): DVB-Core update
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 17:53:12 -02:00
Wang Chen
0eade1f930 dvb: Kill directly reference of netdev->priv
Simply replace netdev->priv with netdev_priv().

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-03 21:13:13 -08:00
Devin Heitmueller
41286d9725 V4L/DVB (9634): Make sure the i2c gate is open before powering down tuner
It is not safe to assume that the i2c gate will be open before issuing the
command to power down the tuner.  In fact, many demods only open the gate
long enough to issue the tuning command.

This fix allows power management to work properly for those tuners behind an
i2c gate (in my case the problem was with the HVR-950Q)

Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-16 23:57:13 -02:00
Devin Heitmueller
3fa37deb1a V4L/DVB (9631): Make s2api work for ATSC support
ATSC should be considered a legacy delivery system, or else fields such as
p->u.vsb.modulation do not get populated (resulting in set_frontend failures)

Cc: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-16 23:56:11 -02:00
Manu Abraham
3b37a15c2d V4L/DVB (9346): Optimization: Enable gate in a symmetric/disciplined way,
rather than implementing different ways leading to confusion.

This allows multiple gate_enable/disable's in the tuner_read/write
functions, thereby lesser number of I/O operations throughout,
eventually leading to better results. As a side effect demods that
detect the STOP bit for auto closing of the gate can be avoided, thereby
a very minimal gain in disabling the auto detect feature as well.
Improves readability on the device control.

Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 08:11:18 -02:00
Steven Toth
a1bc84c083 V4L/DVB (9274): Remove spurious messages and turn into debug.
Remove spurious messages and turn into debug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-17 17:30:52 -03:00
Darron Broad
6594690b39 V4L/DVB (9264): MFE: bugfix: multi-frontend mutual exclusion parallel open
When moving from one frontend to another
an application could spawn multiple threads opening
the same new frontend and in some circumstances all of
these could become delayed waiting for the previous
frontend readers or previous frontend writer thread to
complete.

In this scenario the first thread will succeed on open
to bring the new frontend online but any others will return
EBUSY. This is a fault.  If the first succeeds and all others
are on the same frontend then they should succeed also.

Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-17 17:28:22 -03:00
Darron Broad
59b1842da1 V4L/DVB (9227): MFE: Add multi-frontend mutual exclusion
This add frontend R/W mutual exclusion.
Prior to this point in time it was possible to open both
frontends simultaneously which an MFE card cannot support.

In order to stop this, a delayed open is performed which
has the following function:

-  Return EBUSY after a configurable amount of time
   if a frontend is unavailable due to the other being
   in use.

-  Only allow opening of a frontend if the kernel thread
   of the other has stopped.

This solution was chosen to allow switching between
frontends to work as seamlessly as possible. When both
frontends are actually opened simultaneously then one
will only open, but if quick switching is performed
between one of many then the new open will succeed in
a clean fashion rather than interrupting a kernel
thread.

Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-17 17:24:15 -03:00
Steven Toth
363c35fc44 V4L/DVB (9222): S2API: Add Multiple-frontend on a single adapter support.
A detailed description from the original patches 2 years ago:

"The WinTV-HVR3000 has a single transport bus which is shared between
a DVB-T and DVB-S modulator. These patches build on the bus acquisition
cx88 work from a few weeks ago to add support for this.

So to applications the HVR3000 looks like this:
/dev/dvb/adapter0/fe0 (cx24123 DVB-S demod)
/dev/dvb/adapter0/fe1 (cx22702 DVB-T demod)

Additional boards continue as before, eg:
/dev/dvb/adapter1/fe0 (lgdt3302 ATSC demod)

The basic change is removing the single instance of the videobuf_dvb in
cx8802_dev and saa7134_dev(?) and replacing it with a list and some
supporting functions.

*NOTE* This branch was taken before v4l-dvb was closed for 2.6.19 so
two or three current cx88 patches appear to be reversed by this tree,
this will be cleaned up in the near future. The patches missing change
the mutex handing to core->lock, fix an enumeration problem."

It should be recognised that a number of people have been maintaining
this patchset. Significant levels of Kudos to everyone one involved,
including but not limited to:

Darron Broad
Fabio M. Di Nitto
Carlo Scarfoglio
Hans Werner

Without the work of these people, and countless others, my two year old
patches would of died on the Mercurial linuxtv.org vine a long time
ago.

TODO: Revise these patches a little further so that the need for
demux1 and dvr0 is optional, not mandatory on the HVR3000.

HISTORY (darron):
This is the last update to MFE prepared by Hans which is based
upon the `scratchpad' diff created by Carlo.
All MFE work prior to that point must be attributed to Fabio
who ported and maintained Steve's original patch up to that
time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-17 17:23:10 -03:00
Manu Abraham
97854829b9 V4L/DVB (9195): Frontend API Fix: 32APSK is a valid modulation for the DVB-S2 delivery
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-17 17:15:37 -03:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9b12619f7 device create: misc: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:43 -07:00
Steven Toth
6068f50638 V4L/DVB (9183): S2API: Return error of the caller provides 0 commands.
S2API: Return error of the caller provides 0 commands.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:28:21 -02:00
Steven Toth
ef526f4246 V4L/DVB (9182): S2API: Added support for DTV_HIERARCHY
A user tuning DVB-T via the S2API reports that this was not implemented,
and his tuning was failing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:28:12 -02:00
Steven Toth
b87625f0cc V4L/DVB (9181): S2API: Add support fot DTV_GUARD_INTERVAL and DTV_TRANSMISSION_MODE
Tuning DVB-T via the S2API was failing, missing some essential items.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:28:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
a4de91be46 V4L/DVB (9180): S2API: Added support for DTV_CODE_RATE_HP/LP
Reports from users that using the new API for tuning DTV was failing,
and the cache was missing some essential items.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:27:55 -02:00
Steven Toth
0a6393ae21 V4L/DVB (9177): S2API: Change _8PSK / _16APSK to PSK_8 and APSK_16
... and cleanup any drivers using them.
I've also removed NBC_QPSK and modified the cx24116 driver to check
the delivery_type also, removing some excess namespace baggage.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:27:24 -02:00
Steven Toth
82d7669dc3 V4L/DVB (9173): S2API: Remove the hardcoded command limit during validation
This means that when developers add new commands then they'll be see
the DTV_MAX_COMMAND define and will be more likely to modify it, without
having to modify the command validation code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:25:35 -02:00
Darron Broad
e5cefa82ce V4L/DVB (9172): S2API: Bugfix related to DVB-S / DVB-S2 tuning for the legacy API.
Fixes switching from S2API to legacy where legacy params given to S2API
aware demods are cached ones and not those implied in the legacy API.

It was found (on an S2API aware demod at least) that after using
an S2API aware application and then switching to a legacy application
that prior S2API params were in effect were legacy has only
implied values. This fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:25:22 -02:00
Darron Broad
4aae8efb49 V4L/DVB (9171): S2API: Stop an OOPS if illegal commands are dumped in S2API.
Quick fix to stop an OOPS if illegal commands are dumped in S2API.

Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-13 12:25:10 -02:00
Steven Toth
eacf8d8d6b V4L/DVB (9072): S2API: Add DTV_API_VERSION command
This allows application developers to query the dvb-core API version
dynamically, helping developers understand whether certain features
will be available.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:11 -02:00
Steven Toth
d48cb402a1 V4L/DVB (9071): S2API: Implement result codes for individual commands
This allows application developers to determine which particular
command in a sequence is invalid, or failing with error.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:11 -02:00
Michael Krufky
ebb8d68a5c V4L/DVB (9048): add a general-purpose callback pointer to struct dvb_frontend
Remove tuner_callback pointers from tuner driver configuration
and private state structures, replaced with a general-purpose
callback pointer within struct dvb_frontend.

A new parameter is added to the callback function, called
component. This allows us to use this callback pointer by
frontend components other than the tuner, if need be. So
far, this is only used by tuner drivers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:09 -02:00
Steven Toth
8316568930 V4L/DVB (9025): S2API: Deactivate the ISDB-T definitions
We don't want to push the ISDB-T definitions into the kernel until
we have a high level of confidence in the ISDB-T API. More testing
is required before this code is released.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:07 -02:00
Steven Toth
1d78cac477 V4L/DVB (9008): S2API: Bugfix related to syncing the cache when used with the old API.
Many thanks to Darron Broad for pointing out the obvious.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
75b7f9437b V4L/DVB (9007): S2API: Changed bandwidth to be expressed in HZ
Also added some compat code for the older API.

Added more ISDB message/command suggestions, current not connected in dvb-core.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
4dd88bec36 V4L/DVB (9006): S2API: Allow reliable use of old and new api on the same frontend, regardless.
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Igor M. Liplianin
e6f9ec8657 V4L/DVB (9005): Bug fix: ioctl FE_SET_PROPERTY/FE_GET_PROPERTY always return error
Bug fix: ioctl FE_SET_PROPERTY/FE_GET_PROPERTY always return error

Signed-off-by: Igor M. Liplianin <liplianin@me.by>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
bfbf2dae30 V4L/DVB (9004): S2API: Implement GET/SET handing to the demods
The frontends will be notified (if they chose) of all _get and _set commands
so they can help determine result or action. Results are now returned
to userspace correctly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
363429a089 V4L/DVB (9003): S2API: Remove the DTV_SET_ and DTV_GET_ prefixes
The API now assumes that ioctl calls for FE_SET_PROPERTY and all
set commands, and FE_GET_PROPERTY are get commands.

Simplification.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
80a773c9bc V4L/DVB (9002): S2API: Ensure cache->delivery_system is set at all times.
This helps complex demods which support different modulation types
be better informed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
d7c1500183 V4L/DVB (9001): S2API: ISDBT_SEGMENT_NUM -> ISDBT_SEGMENT_IDX
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
d5748f1079 V4L/DVB (9000): S2API: Cleanup code that prepares tuning structures.
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:05 -02:00
Steven Toth
ee33c525c4 V4L/DVB (8999): S2API: Reduce demod driver complexity by using a cache sync
For demod drivers, we want a single tuning function (set_frontend) to have
access to the properly constructed dvb_frontend_parameters structure, or
the cache values - regardless of whether the legacy or new API is being used.

This cuts down on redundant code in the demod drivers and ensures the
tuning parameters are consistent regardless of the API entry type.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:04 -02:00
Steven Toth
177b868d93 V4L/DVB (8997): S2API: Cleanup SYMBOLRATE, INNERFEC -> SYMBOL_RATE, INNER_FEC
This is now consistent with the existing API.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:04 -02:00
Steven Toth
e7fee0f3aa V4L/DVB (8996): S2API: typedefs replaced, _SEQ_'s removed, fixed 16 command arrays replaced
After discussion the following changes were made:
1. Removed the typedefs in frontend.h, use structures.
2. In the frontend.h, remove the 16 command limit on the API and
   switch to a flexible variable length API. For practical reasons
   a #define limits this to 64, this should be discussed.
3. Changed dvb-core ioctl handing to deal with variable sequences
   of commands.

tune-v0.0.3.c is required to use this API, it contains the interface changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:04 -02:00
Steven Toth
56f0680a28 V4L/DVB (8995): S2API: tv_ / TV_ to dtv_ / DTV_ namespace changes
The group preferred dtv_ over tv_, this implements it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:04 -02:00
Steven Toth
2cf801e3e3 V4L/DVB (8990): S2API: DVB-S/S2 voltage selection bug fix
Thanks to Hans Werner for finding the problem.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:04 -02:00
Steven Toth
13c97bf567 V4L/DVB (8988): S2API: Allow the properties to call legacy ioctls
SET_TONE and SET_VOLTAGE were not previously implemented. Two options
existed. Either cut/paste from the previous ioctl handler into the
process_properties function, which is code duplication. Or, split
the current ioctl handler into it's two major pieces.

Piece 1, responsible for input validation and semaphore acquiring
Piece 2 the processing of the previous ioctls

and finally, a new third pieces where the array of properties
is processed, and can freely call the legacy ioctl handler without
having to re-acquire the fepriv->sem semaphore. This is a clean approach
and ensures the existing legacy ioctls are processed as they were previously
(but with an extra function call) and allows the new API to share code
without duplication.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:03 -02:00
Steven Toth
6b73eeafbc V4L/DVB (8985): S2API: Added dvb frontend changes to support a newer tuning API
This is an experimental patch to add a new tuning mechanism for
dvb frontends. Rather than passing fixed structures across the
user/kernel boundary, which need to be revised for each new modulation
type (or feature the kernel developers want to add), this implements
a simpler message based approach, allowing fe commands to be broken
down into a series of small fixed size transactions, presented
in an array.

The goal is to avoid changing the user/kernel ABI in the future, by
simply creating new frontend commands (and sequencies of commands) that
help us add support for brand new demodulator, delivery system or
statistics related commmands.

known issues:
checkpatch voilations
feedback from various developers yet to be implemented, relating
to namespace conventions, variable length array passing conventions,
and generally some optimization.

This patch should support all existing tuning mechanisms through the
new API, as well as adding 8PSK, DVB-S2 NBC-QPSK and ISDB-T API support.

For testing and exercise purposes, see the latest tune.c tool
available from http://www.steventoth.net/linux/s2

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12 09:37:03 -02:00