Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread Hans de Goede
So, what do these two deep questions, which confound the assembled wisdom of an entire list of Linux video developers, have to do with tables in userspace? None that I can see, unless someone wants to provide a mechanism for the information, having been collected in the module, to be availab

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Németh Márton
Please, please, please, can we concentrate on the subject? What I did with the other out-of-tree em28xx-new driver was that I printed out the urb->kref.refcount before and after each urb operation. The result was that when the urb->complete function is called, the reference count was still 2, ins

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:00 -0600 (CST) kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: For sure we need to have a way for retrieving this information for devices like the sq905 cameras, where the information can't be currently be determined by usersp

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Also an overview is often very helpful. Also trying to visualize what might be needed in the future is helpful. All of this can be extremely helpful. But not everyone can see or imagine every possible thing. For example, it seems that some of the bes

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:15:35 +0100 Markus Rechberger > wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800 >> > Andrew Morton wrote: >> > >> >>> > In the output of /proc/sla

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Markus Rechberger wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Jonathan Johnson wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> My vote is YES, why haven't we done this already?? >> >> My understanding is that we are just drop old kernel support and retaining >> the vast majority of the

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:15:35 +0100 Markus Rechberger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800 > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>> > In the output of /proc/slab_allocators the number of blocks allocated by > >> > usb_alloc_ur

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:00 -0600 (CST) kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: > > For sure we need to have a way for retrieving this information for devices > > like the sq905 cameras, where the information can't be currently be > > determined by userspace. > > Yes, indeed. Except for just o

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Also an overview is often very helpful. Also trying to visualize what might be needed in the future is helpful. All of this can be extremely helpful. But not everyone can see or imagine every possible thing. For example, it seems that some of the best minds in the business are stunned when conf

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800 > Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> > In the output of /proc/slab_allocators the number of blocks allocated by >> > usb_alloc_urb() increases, however, the xawtv is no longer running: >> > >> > size-2048:

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: >> > In the output of /proc/slab_allocators the number of blocks allocated by > > usb_alloc_urb() increases, however, the xawtv is no longer running: > > > > size-2048: 18 usb_alloc_dev+0x1d/0x212 [usbcore] > > size-2048: 2280 usb_alloc_urb

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Theodore, You're considering just one subset of the V4L usa

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Ant
Hans Verkuil wrote: Hi all, There are lot's of discussions, but it can be hard sometimes to actually determine someone's opinion. So here is a quick poll, please reply either to the list or directly to me with your yes/no answer and (optional but welcome) a short explanation to your standpo

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Theodore, You're considering just one subset of the V4L usages: notebook webcams. Actually, the sq905 cameras a

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Theodore, You're considering just one subset of the V4L usages: notebook webcams. Actually, the sq905 cameras are not "notebook webcams." They are cheap, consumer entry level

Re: zc3xx: "Creative Webcam Live!" never worked with in-tree driver

2009-02-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:59 -0800 Auke Kok wrote: > Auke Kok wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I have a "Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro" that until > > recently worked fine with the out-of-tree gspcav1 driver > > (gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz is the latest version I used unti 2.6.26).

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Jonathan Johnson wrote: > Hello all, > > My vote is YES, why haven't we done this already?? > > My understanding is that we are just drop old kernel support and retaining > the vast majority of the drivers. > If anyone tallied the total number CVE listed vulernabi

Re: zc3xx: "Creative Webcam Live!" never worked with in-tree driver

2009-02-24 Thread Auke Kok
Auke Kok wrote: All, I have a "Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro" that until recently worked fine with the out-of-tree gspcav1 driver (gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz is the latest version I used unti 2.6.26). Since this driver (basically) got merged in the kernel I got my hopes up t

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread hermann pitton
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 24.02.2009, 16:02 -0500 schrieb Michael Krufky: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Should we drop support for kernels <2.6.22 in our v4l-dvb repository? > > > > _: Yes > > _: No > > > NO. > this is an unwanted reply to Hans' polling, but I also sta

[PATCH 2/2 v3] soc-camera: configure drivers with a default format on open

2009-02-24 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Currently soc-camera doesn't set up any image format without an explicit S_FMT. According to the API this should be supported, for example, capture-example.c from v4l2-apps by default doesn't issue an S_FMT. This patch moves negotiating of available host-camera format translations to probe() ti

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface). > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:08:37 -0800 (PST) > bugme-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

2009-02-24 Thread Andrew Morton
(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface). On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:08:37 -0800 (PST) bugme-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12768 There's additional info at the link. >Summary: usb_

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Hello all, My vote is YES, why haven't we done this already?? My understanding is that we are just drop old kernel support and retaining the vast majority of the drivers. If anyone tallied the total number CVE listed vulernabilites and other problems fixed since then they would probably be shoc

zc3xx: "Creative Webcam Live!" never worked with in-tree driver

2009-02-24 Thread Auke Kok
All, I have a "Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro" that until recently worked fine with the out-of-tree gspcav1 driver (gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz is the latest version I used unti 2.6.26). Since this driver (basically) got merged in the kernel I got my hopes up that the in-kernel

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Krufky
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Should we drop support for kernels <2.6.22 in our v4l-dvb repository? > > _: Yes > _: No NO. > Optional question: > > Why: Dropping support for older kernels means dropping support for MOST testers. Sure, it's an inconvenience for the m

recording problems with CAM

2009-02-24 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
Hello, I'm having some issues. Bad recordings, and always accompanied with the following: [10968.525453] saa7146 (1) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer [10975.963186] saa7146 (2) vpeirq: used 55 times >80% of buffer (163372 bytes now) [10977.657955] saa7146 (1) vpe

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Simon Kenyon
John Pilkington wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: * Enterprise-class distributions (RHEL, SLED) are not the right target for the v4l-dvb repository, so we don't care which kernels these are running. I think you should be aware that the mythtv and ATrpms communities include a significant number

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:15 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > There are lot's of discussions, but it can be hard sometimes to actually > determine someone's opinion. > > So here is a quick poll, please reply either to the list or directly to me > with your yes/no answer and (optional but

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Adam Baker wrote: On Monday 23 February 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:53:57 +0100 > > Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > Sorry for the late reply, it's been very busy.

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
Please reply to this poll if you haven't done so yet. I only count clear yes/no answers, so if you replied earlier to this in order to discuss a point then I haven't counted that. Currently it's 16 yes and 2 no votes, but I'd really like to see some more input. I want to post the final results

[cron job] ERRORS: armv5 armv5-ixp armv5-omap2 i686 m32r mips powerpc64 x86_64 v4l-dvb build

2009-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
(This message is generated daily by a cron job that builds v4l-dvb for the kernels and architectures in the list below.) Results of the daily build of v4l-dvb: date:Tue Feb 24 19:00:03 CET 2009 path:http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb changeset: 10653:359d95e1d541 gcc version: gcc

Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-zoran

2009-02-24 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Mauro, > > Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-zoran for the > following: You might consider posting to the mjpeg users list. Maybe there are some people who used the playback feature more often. -- To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [PATCH] Add "Sony PlayTV" to dibcom driver

2009-02-24 Thread sebastian . blanes
2009/2/23 Mauro Carvalho Chehab : > [...] > Sebastian, > > could you please send it again, being sure that your email won't break long > lines? > diff -uprN -X dontdiff.txt a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c --- a/linux/drivers/m

[git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Richter
Linus, if you don't mind receiving yet another new driver this late in the game, then please pull from the firedtv-merge branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git firedtv-merge to receive the following IEEE 1394 + DVB updates. More information after

Re: PVR x50 corrupts ATSC 115 streams

2009-02-24 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:48 PM, David Engel wrote: > > The BER isn't totally unreliable. Yes, when it's low, it does seem to > > be meaningless. However, when it's high, as in my recent attempts to > > try a 115 by itself, it

Re: [patch 0/2] Add support for DVB part of Avermedia A700 DVB-S cards

2009-02-24 Thread Eduard Huguet
That's great, I really hope your patches finally find their way into the main tree. I'm just tired of manually downloading & patching HG sources everytime I needed to recompile the kernel... Anyway, I've been using the card for some time now (almost a year, IIRC...) and it runs very well in DVB-S

[patch 2/2] saa7134: add DVB support for Avermedia A700 cards

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Add DVB support for Avermedia DVB-S Pro and Avermedia DVB-S Hybrid+FM card both labled A700. They use zl10313 demod (driver mt312) and zl10036 tuner. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schwarzott Index: v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/saa7134/Kconfig =

[patch 1/2] Add support for Zarlink ZL10036 DVB-S tuner.

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
This driver is based on initial work by Tino Reichardt and was heavily changed. The datasheet of the zl10036 can be found here and on other places on the net: http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/dvb-card/datasheets/ZL10036.pdf The zl10038 is similar to the zl10036, so it is maybe possible to write a co

[patch 0/2] Add support for DVB part of Avermedia A700 DVB-S cards

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hello all! These patches finally add support for the DVB part of the Avermedia A700 DVB-S cards. The first adds the tuner-driver for the Zarlink zl10036. The second adds the glue code to saa7134-dvb to use it. After having them lying around a long time I now did a bit of cleanup and send them ou

[PATCH update] firedtv: dvb_frontend_info for FireDTV S2, fix "frequency limits undefined" error

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Richter
From: Beat Michel Liechti I found that the function fdtv_frontend_init in the file firedtv-fe.c was missing a case for FIREDTV_DVB_S2 which resulted in "frequency limits undefined" errors in syslog. Signed-off-by: Beat Michel Liechti Change by Stefan R: combine it with case case FIREDTV_DVB_S

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread John Pilkington
Hi Jean: Jean Delvare wrote: Hi John, (re-adding linux-media on Cc as I doubt you dropped it on purpose...) Right: I do subconsciously expect 'reply' to go to the list, and don't always remember to check first. No doubt you got two copies. On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:46:04 +, John Pilkingto

[PATCH] Siano 10239 SMSSpiCommon unused bytes bugfix

2009-02-24 Thread Uri Shkolnik
# HG changeset patch # User Uri Shkolnik # Date 1235483353 -7200 # Node ID ba9020b165e75b80e8c7b499e8068741982c44f6 # Parent 3caff6dae0753d2adb581b7ef5e309a1954820b2 Fixed use of freed memory in smsspicommon From: Uri Shkolnik Moved the handling of "unused bytes" before the reporting of messag

Re: About the specific setting for lens

2009-02-24 Thread Magnus Damm
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, morimoto.kunin...@renesas.com wrote: > >> >> Dear Guennadi. >> >> Now MigoR and AP325 board have ov772x camera. >> However, the lens used is different. >> >> And I have a specific good setting value >> for the le

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Ales Jurik
On Sunday 22 of February 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > There are lot's of discussions, but it can be hard sometimes to actually > determine someone's opinion. > > So here is a quick poll, please reply either to the list or directly to me > with your yes/no answer and (optional but welcome

Re: About the specific setting for lens

2009-02-24 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, morimoto.kunin...@renesas.com wrote: > > Dear Guennadi. > > Now MigoR and AP325 board have ov772x camera. > However, the lens used is different. > > And I have a specific good setting value > for the lens of AP325. > > So, I would like to add new function for > specific le

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi John, (re-adding linux-media on Cc as I doubt you dropped it on purpose...) On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:46:04 +, John Pilkington wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > > * Enterprise-class distributions (RHEL, SLED) are not the right target > > for the v4l-dvb repository, so we don't care which ke

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-02-24 Thread John Pilkington
Jean Delvare wrote: * Enterprise-class distributions (RHEL, SLED) are not the right target for the v4l-dvb repository, so we don't care which kernels these are running. I think you should be aware that the mythtv and ATrpms communities include a significant number of people who have chos

Re: Updated patch for firedtv: dvb_frontend_info for FireDTV S2, fix "frequency limits undefined" error

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Richter
On 23 Feb, Beat Michel Liechti wrote at linux1394-devel: > --- linux-2.6.28.5-firebranch/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fe.c.orig > 2009-02-23 22:25:53.0 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.28.5-firebranch/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fe.c > 2009-02-23 22:29:10.0 +0100 > @@ -203,6

Re: cx-24116 +scan-s2

2009-02-24 Thread Goga777
> can anyone use scan-s2 with cx24116 demodulator saccessfully? yes, I'm using hvr4000 card with the latest scan-s2 and transponder list with rolloff = 35 (NOT roll off = auto !!!) succesfully corrected transponder list with roll off = 25 for scan-s2 you can download from here http://vdr-setti

Re: running multiple DVB cards successfully.. what do I need to know?? (major and minor numbers??)

2009-02-24 Thread Eduard Huguet
Hi, Another way of controlling the numbering schema of your DVB devices is to blacklist the modules (so udev doesn't load them)m and then modprobing them manually at system startup. This is what I did for my Nova T-500 and Avermedia A700. Briefly (this is for Gentoo, running OpenRC): In /etc/