Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > When porting ivtv to 2.6.20 I discovered that I got errors when loading > the cx25840 module and that that module couldn't load the firmware > anymore. > > I've just discovered that changes in 2.6.20 brought a cx25840 bug to the > surface (it was always there). I've made a patch and pending some > testing it should end up in 2.6.20.1 (it's a pretty serious bug after > all), but this means that cards with a cx2584x won't work with 2.6.20 > unless you manually apply the attached patch. > > If you have a saa7115-based card (pvr250/350), then it will work fine. > > The ivtv trunk has been patched as well to support 2.6.20. > > Next kernel cycle I really should do some tests before the kernel is > released :-( > > Regards, > > Hans > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > diff -r 2cb0a67c420a -r d1bfc4440540 > linux/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c > --- linux/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c Sun Feb 04 > 23:39:25 2007 +0100 > +++ linux/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c Mon Feb 05 > 20:56:22 2007 +0100 > @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ > #define FWSEND 48 > > #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0) > -#define FWDEV(x) &((x)->adapter->dev) > +#define FWDEV(x) &((x)->dev) > #else > #define FWDEV(x) (x)->name > #endif > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel I have been running version 3797 on 2.6.20, and I see no problems. The firmware from subversion had to be put into the /lib/firmware directory, but it started working with no problem after that. Was that bug fixed in version 3797??
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