Hallo Thomas, thank you for your contribution. However, I'm against applying it.
On 01/10/2011 05:19 AM, Thomas Schlöter wrote: > I have developed some modifications to the 2.6.37 DVB frontend code to > support DVB satellite channel routing (aka "SCR", "Unicable", "EN50494"). > Following this standard, all satellite tuners share the same cable and each > of them has a fixed intermediate frequency it is supposed to tune to. Zapping > is done by sending a special DiSEqC message while SEC voltage is temporarily > pulled from 14 to 18 volts. This message includes the tuner's ID from 0 to 7, > the frequency, band and polarisation to tune to as well as one out of two > satellite positions. > > I decided this should be supported by the kernel frontend code as it is > impossible to send that special DiSEqC / voltage sequence from userspace. Why do you think that's impossible? There's a userspace implementation in Enigma2. > Additionally, it adds fully transparent support for SCR to arbitrary > applications that use the DVB API, such as MythTV, VDR, xine etc. That statement is not true, because you have to configure Unicable LNBs, which you do using dvb-scr-setup.c. Regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
