[linux-dvb] Re: Again: confused about DVB drivers

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Walter Schittek wrote:
> Ok, it's still not clear whether the cause for my problems lies in the 
> driver or in vdr or (the most probable) in me, because I omitted 
> something or made something wrong.
>
> Before I bring this problem to the vdr list, I would like to have 
> answers to the following questions:
>
> Is the DVB driver linux-dvb.2003-06-08.tar.bz2 that can be downloaded 
> from the VDR site (http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm) 
> the "HEAD" driver or the "kernel" driver?
HEAD is referencing to a CVS branch, both source trees are CVS HEAD. 
DVB/ means the release tree that is used to generate the (pre-)release 
tarballs.

dvb-kernel/ is the reference to generate 2.5. kernel patchsets and this 
is the place for actual bleeding edge driver development. This source 
tree is sometimes unstable, sometimes just works fine.

You check these two trees out using

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv login
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co DVB
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co dvb-kernel

You update them using

$ cd DVB/
$ cvs up -dPA
$ cd ../dvb-kernel/
$ cvs up -dPA


> If it's the latter, where do I get a matching module videodev that - as 
> I have been told - is necessary for the kernel driver?
use the DVB/ tree or the release tarballs unless you know what you're 
doing and unless you are willing to help debugging kernel and driver.

Holger



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