[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Resolve tuning problem on WinTV NEXUS-CA

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 20:37, Markus Breitenberger wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:50, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > Do you know where it was failing? i.e. was the
> > wait-for-partial-convergence loop timing out, or was it the
> > wait-for-full-convergence loop which immediately follows it?
> >
> > Did you try putting the msleep() after the wait-for-partial-convergence -
> > maybe it needs a delay between that and the wait-for-full-convergence
> > loop?
>
> I did a few more testings and I now know why the previous patch worked. The
> increased sleep time always caused a timeout and resulted in a 'goto
> timeout'. The remaining code in this function was never executed.
>
> It seems like the saving of the frequency offset at the end of the function
> causes problems. With the following patch, everythings works fine for me:

Cool - I was hoping that code would speed up tuning, but it doesn't seem to 
really - and it also breaks it for you so I'll remove it :)