On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 02:09 +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 12:25 AM, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> > I have tried this patch, while it initially got MythTV working, there is
> > too many call backs and some failed to acquire the lock. The device
> > became unstable on both single and dual devices.
> >
> > The callbacks
> >
> > af9015_af9013_read_status,
> > af9015_af9013_init
> > af9015_af9013_sleep
> >
> > had to be removed.
> >
> > I take your point, a call back can be an alternative.
> >
> > The patch didn't stop the firmware fails either.
> >
> > The af9015 usb bridge on the whole is so unstable in its early stages,
> > especially on a cold boot and when the USB controller has another device
> > on it, such as card reader or wifi device.
> >
> > I am, at the moment looking to see if the fails are due to interface 1
> > being claimed by HID.
> 
> I just got af9013 rewrite ready. Feel free to test.
> http://git.linuxtv.org/anttip/media_tree.git/shortlog/refs/heads/misc
> 
> It reduces typical statistics polling load maybe 1/4 from the original.
> 
> I see still small glitch when switching to channel. That seems to come 
> from tuner driver I2C load. There is 3 tuners used for dual devices; 
> MXL5005S, MXL5007T and TDA18271. I have only MXL5005S and MXL5007T dual 
> devices here. MXL5005S is worse than MXL5007T but both makes still 
> rather much I/O.

I have had a quick test of this patch, it seems a lot better.

I will do more testing on my troublesome PC and Mythtv at the weekend.

Regards

Malcolm



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