[linux-dvb] Re: Couple of frontend questions

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Christian Schuld wrote:
> 
> Please keep the users of motorized dishes in mind. The time between tuning and 
> getting lock is in worst case (when the dish must be moved form far east to 
> far west) about a minute.
> Zigzag works most of the times, but leads to locks on the wrong satellites, 
> too. Besides that it makes the installation of such a rotorized dish much 
> more complicated, because observing signal strength and SNR to find a new 
> satellite is more difficult when zigzagging changes freq/sr/fec all the time.
> 
> So I vote for a way to disable zigzagging completely, may be via a sysfs 
> interface? It would be nice for tuning the zigzigging parameters, too.

sysfs stuff will have to wait until after we branch CVS to
separate 2.6 and 2.4 stuff.

But it's a good idea to be able to disable zigzag and let
applications do what they want.

Johannes


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