My logfiles and dmesg output have become almost unreadable due to
repeated, almost empty lines.
[ 3606.212316] >
[ 3606.212738] >
...
[ 3627.177280] >
[ 3627.177775] >
...
They start one hour after vdr daemon is launched. Each section contains
13 lines and is repeated every 21 seconds. Kernel driver for my
AverMedia DVB-T 771 is bttv, kernel is 3.6.6-1-ARCH (Arch Linux). I
installed v4l-dvb from git and get the same result but with one line
appended to each section
[ 3688.860166] >
[ 3688.860570] >
[ 3691.188200] dvb_frontend_poll: 8 callbacks suppressed
The attached patch suppresses at least the useless ">" output.
diff -ur a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c 2012-11-22 09:56:25.817307254 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c 2012-11-22 10:01:46.014371997 +0100
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
if (i2c_debug)
pr_cont(" %02x", msg->buf[cnt]);
}
- if (!(xmit & BT878_I2C_NOSTOP))
+ if (i2c_debug && !(xmit & BT878_I2C_NOSTOP))
pr_cont(">\n");
return msg->len;
