On Saturday 15 March 2003 17:14, Simeon Walker wrote:
Hi,
recently I have tried out the dvb-kernel drivers from cvs as of
12-03-2003.
I am using kernel 2.4.20 (with devfs) and a Nova-T 'budget' PCI card
(grundig_29504-401 frontend).
The first time the modules are loaded after a reboot everyhing works fine.
If I unload the modules and load them again (using the insmod.sh script)
then everything appears to load but no /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 device
is created (the others are).
Is this a known problem?
Yeah, the frontend becomes powered down during the unload/reload. The current
detection code does not detect the frontend once this has occurred.
I did submit a patch for this a few months back, but unfortunately, nothing
has happened with it, perhaps because the code necessary to re-detect it when
it is powered down is quite nasty.
Your patch does basically the right thing, but I'd like some code that's
a bit easier to read. Unfortunally I did not had the time yet to clean
this up.