[linux-dvb] Re: latest cvs driver and scan app

[bigg <bigg@mba4.org>]

> > After about 20 mins of playing, I eventually got it to work, however, the
> > problem I found was that if I simply loaded teh drivers (with make
> > insmod), then I tried to run the scan utility, it would fail to find any
> > channels. However, if I first ran vdr and selected a channel on the
> > terrestrial card, then killed vdr (presumably simply tuning to a frequency
> > would also have worked), that the scan app could quite happily find all of
> > the services on my local transmitter.
> > Presumably this is some kind of bug?
> 
> The bug was that scan always opened the frontend O_RDONLY which
> prevented proper frontend initialization. Fixed in CVS.
> 
> BTW, this also exposes a driver bug, because the FE_SET_FRONTEND
> ioctl should not be allowed with O_RDONLY.
> 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this bug,
> Johannes
> 

No probs, I just tried it too and the updated scan seems to work fine
immediatly after make insmod now.

Thanks for the quick fix :)




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