On Wednesday 25 February 2004 14:59, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > > Why is there an FE_RESET ioctl immediately after the FE_SET_FRONTEND in > > > dvb_frontend_recover.. surely the frontend code itself should take care > > > of performing a reset if it needs to? > > > > FE_RESET does not reset the frontend, it just restarts the > > signal acquisiton algorithms in the demodulator (not all demods > > need you to do that manually). It should be renamed. > > Well, that's what I thought, but Holger explained to me that > it does something different (see his mail). > > It seems the FE_CAN_RECOVER and FE_CAN_CLEAN_SETUP should be dropped, > and some FE_NEEDS_A_KICK_IN_THE_ASS_TO_RECOVER and > FE_HANGS_IF_WE_DO_NOT_TWIDDLE_SOME_BITS_AFTER_IT_REPORTS_SIGNAL_LOCK > flags should be introduced. Very few frontends actually need these > workarounds.
Right, I'll think up some better names for those and change them. I'll sort the name of FE_RESET out while I'm at it as well. BTW: new dvb_frontend.c abnd stv0299.c in CVS. Lemme know what you think. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.