Re: Order of dvb devices
Manu Abraham wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote: Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel. When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards). So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem. I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else. with PCI Bus related info you mean the KERNELS parameter which is reported by udevinfo? udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0': KERNELS==:08:00.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci does this KERNELS parameter always match the Slot-Id of lspci -vmm ? Slot: 08:00.0 Class: Multimedia controller Vendor: Philips Semiconductors Device: SAA7146 SVendor:Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH SDevice:S2-3200 Rev:01 is it right that the Slot-Id is deterministic for PCI/PCIe based systems? -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote: Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel. When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards). So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem. I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else. with PCI Bus related info you mean the KERNELS parameter which is reported by udevinfo? udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0': KERNELS==:08:00.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci does this KERNELS parameter always match the Slot-Id of lspci -vmm ? Slot: 08:00.0 Class: Multimedia controller Vendor: Philips Semiconductors Device: SAA7146 SVendor: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH SDevice: S2-3200 Rev: 01 is it right that the Slot-Id is deterministic for PCI/PCIe based systems? Slot can also change, since slots are behind a specific bridge which could be susceptible to events such as hotplug. Also things such as PCI reordering and things like that tend to muck up things even more.Things such as DVB_ADAPTER number are also pointless and useless. You can see an example how to handle it in a bit practical manner: http://www.wlug.org.nz/UDev Regards, Manu -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
Manu Abraham wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote:
Manu Abraham wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote:
Devin Heitmueller wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote:
yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that
the ordering gets flipped after reboot.
But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g.
budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these
devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards?
The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of
all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel.
When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine
of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards).
So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem.
I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration
order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same
driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have
two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get
reversed on reboot.
Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the
kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced.
True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to
provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to
get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else.
with PCI Bus related info you mean the KERNELS parameter which is
reported by udevinfo?
udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)
[...]
looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0':
KERNELS==:08:00.0
SUBSYSTEMS==pci
does this KERNELS parameter always match the Slot-Id of lspci -vmm ?
Slot: 08:00.0
Class: Multimedia controller
Vendor: Philips Semiconductors
Device: SAA7146
SVendor:Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH
SDevice:S2-3200
Rev:01
is it right that the Slot-Id is deterministic for PCI/PCIe based systems?
Slot can also change, since slots are behind a specific bridge which
could be susceptible to events such as hotplug. Also things such as
PCI reordering and things like that tend to muck up things even
more.Things such as DVB_ADAPTER number are also pointless and useless.
You can see an example how to handle it in a bit practical manner:
http://www.wlug.org.nz/UDev
thanks for your explanation.
thank for your answer.
if no hotplug (removing or adding PCI/PCie cards) is involved, is the
PCI Slot-ID then fixed?
does the KERNELS parameter of the following udev rule not change after
boot if no hotplug is involved?
SUBSYSTEM==dvb, ATTRS{vendor}==0x18c3, ATTRS{device}==0x0720,
KERNELS==:01:00.0,
PROGRAM=/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter0/%%s
$${K#*.}', SYMLINK+=%c
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Re: Order of dvb devices
Mika Laitio wrote:
True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to
provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to
get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else.
At least in Mandriva, the order and naming of network adapters are handled by
using a this kind of udev rule which prevents for example eth0 and eth1 to swap
between boots:
[lam...@iiris rules.d]$ cat 70-persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.
# Drakx-net rule for eth0 (00:24:e8:9e:66:13)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:11:22:33:44:55,
ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth0
# PCI device 0x8086:0x4232 (iwlagn)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==11:22:33:44:55:66, ATTR{type}==1,
KERNEL==wlan*, NAME=wlan0
I am not sure whether udev rules itself can originally generate this file or
whether it's mandriva's own tools/scripts that will generate this file and add
all new adapters it finds that are not yet in the file.
Mika
The eth drivers have one advantage: nearly all of them have an
associated MAC address, which is (supposed to be, anyway) globally
(the planet, not just the system) unique. It is, therefore, easy
enough to associate a specific NIC with a specific name, as shown.
If we keep some sort of configuration table:
For those boards that have eeproms, and for which the eeprom contains
a serial number, or other unique identifier, we could do the same thing.
Alternatively, we could use the PCI address (bus/device/unit).
USB devices can have serial numbers, but it isn't common.
Sounds like we need to think about keeping a table, having some udev
rules to work with it, and some utility to manage it.
RFQ time?
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Re: Order of dvb devices
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel. When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards). So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem. I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. CU Oliver -- VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ 4 MByte Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-mem-mod/ Full-TS Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-full-ts-mod/ -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote: I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. I suppose it's possible that udev does not process the events in the order in which they are received. Admittedly I have not done any real analysis as to how that part of the kernel works. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote: Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel. When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards). So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem. I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else. Regards, Manu -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
Am Samstag, den 16.01.2010, 00:00 +0100 schrieb Oliver Endriss: Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? The driver does not 'search' for a card. The driver registers the ids of all supported cards with the pci subsystem of the kernel. When the pci subsystem detects a new card, it calls the 'probe' routine of the driver (for example saa7146_init_one for saa7146-based cards). So the ordering is determined by the pci subsystem. I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced. CU Oliver Agreed. Hermann -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
True, the ordering is not exactly the same everytime. One will need to
provide PCI Bus related info also to a practical udev configuration to
get things sorted out in a sane way, rather than anything else.
At least in Mandriva, the order and naming of network adapters are
handled by using a this kind of udev rule which prevents for example eth0
and eth1 to swap between boots:
[lam...@iiris rules.d]$ cat 70-persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.
# Drakx-net rule for eth0 (00:24:e8:9e:66:13)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTR{address}==00:11:22:33:44:55, ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*,
NAME=eth0
# PCI device 0x8086:0x4232 (iwlagn)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTR{address}==11:22:33:44:55:66, ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==wlan*,
NAME=wlan0
I am not sure whether udev rules itself can originally generate this file
or whether it's mandriva's own tools/scripts that will generate this file
and add all new adapters it finds that are not yet in the file.
Mika
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Order of dvb devices
if a system contains multiple DVB cards of the same type, how is the order of devices determined by the driver/kernel? I use 2 Technotrend S2-3200 cards in a system and observerd that if I load the driver driver budget_ci manually as follows: modprobe budget_ci adapter_nr=0,1 the device with the lower pci ID :08:00.0 is assigned to adapter0 and the device with the higher pci ID :08:01.0 is assigned to adapter1: udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0': KERNELS==:08:00.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:01.0': KERNELS==:08:01.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci Is it true for all DVB drives that the device with the lower PCI id gets the lower adapter name? -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: if a system contains multiple DVB cards of the same type, how is the order of devices determined by the driver/kernel? I use 2 Technotrend S2-3200 cards in a system and observerd that if I load the driver driver budget_ci manually as follows: modprobe budget_ci adapter_nr=0,1 the device with the lower pci ID :08:00.0 is assigned to adapter0 and the device with the higher pci ID :08:01.0 is assigned to adapter1: udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0': KERNELS==:08:00.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:01.0': KERNELS==:08:01.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci Is it true for all DVB drives that the device with the lower PCI id gets the lower adapter name? No, you cannot really make this assumption. In fact, there are users who see behavior where uses have two of the same card and the cards get flipped around randomly just by rebooting. The ordering is based on the timing of the device driver loading, so it is not deterministic. I believe you can use udev rules though to force a particular driver to get a specific adapter number (although admittedly I do not know the specifics of how it is done, and am not confident it *can* be done if both cards are the same vendor/model). Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: if a system contains multiple DVB cards of the same type, how is the order of devices determined by the driver/kernel? I use 2 Technotrend S2-3200 cards in a system and observerd that if I load the driver driver budget_ci manually as follows: modprobe budget_ci adapter_nr=0,1 the device with the lower pci ID :08:00.0 is assigned to adapter0 and the device with the higher pci ID :08:01.0 is assigned to adapter1: udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:00.0': KERNELS==:08:00.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0) [...] looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:08:01.0': KERNELS==:08:01.0 SUBSYSTEMS==pci Is it true for all DVB drives that the device with the lower PCI id gets the lower adapter name? No, you cannot really make this assumption. In fact, there are users who see behavior where uses have two of the same card and the cards get flipped around randomly just by rebooting. The ordering is based on the timing of the device driver loading, so it is not deterministic. yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
Re: Order of dvb devices
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Devin Heitmueller dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse be...@motama.com wrote: yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that the ordering gets flipped after reboot. But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these devices determined? How does the driver search for available dvb cards? I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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 If you modinfo dvb_adapter_driver_foo you will see an adapter_nr module option -- you can use this to force your DVB adapter device minor ordering. Regards, Mike -- 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
