On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:36:08 Nicholas Fearnley wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2007, at 16:09, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:00:40 Nicholas Fearnley wrote:
> >> On 17 Jul 2007, at 15:08, Tyler Trafford wrote:
> >>> Nicholas Fearnley wrote:
> >>>> My hotplug script is custom also.  It is being called for sure,
> >>>> but not by IVTV.  I have something along the lines of:
> >>>>
> >>>> echo >> "I'm being called for $FIRMWARE"
> >>>>
> >>>> Which does show a couple of things, but not IVTV.  The IVTV INIT
> >>>> simply fails to load the firmware for the detected  PVR-150
> >>>> card. It fails on retry also (with the 'firmware' suggestion).
> >>>>
> >>>> So hotplug is there, it's callable (it's getting called!), but
> >>>> not by IVTV.  IVTV is detecting the card fine as a PVR-150, but
> >>>> just not calling hotplug at all.
> >>>
> >>> Is ivtv compiled as a module?
> >>
> >> No, compiled in kernel.  Should that cause a problem?  I should
> >> probably try and compile as a mod and get back to you.
> >>
> >> It would be cool to have it in kernel though from a 'firmware'
> >> build perspective - less to miss, and I can disable module loading
> >> from the kernel to make it tighter.
> >
> > I've never actually tested having ivtv compiled in the kernel, I
> > always
> > tested it as a module. I'm not sure how firmware loading is
> > supposed to
> > work for in-kernel drivers. I suspect that by the time the driver
> > is initialized the hotplug daemons may not be active yet.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         Hans
>
> Agreed, that's probably the issue - but as a module I have problems
> still.
>
> My hotplug script has a little debug in it thus (the script I have
> used on 2.6.18 for a while now):
>
> It yields:
>
> HOTPLUG: called add, with /module/ivtv ()
> HOTPLUG: called add, with /bus/pci/drivers/ivtv ()
> HOTPLUG: called add, with /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/firmware/
> 0000:00:08.0 (v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw)
> HOTPLUG: loading /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw to /sys//devices/
> pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/firmware/0000:00:08.0/data
> HOTPLUG: called remove, with /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/
> firmware/0000:00:08.0 (v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw)
> HOTPLUG: called add, with /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/firmware/
> 0000:00:08.0 (v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw)
> HOTPLUG: loading /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw to /sys//devices/
> pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/firmware/0000:00:08.0/data
> HOTPLUG: called remove, with /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/
> firmware/0000:00:08.0 (v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw)
>
> Notice the double // in sys//devices!  So I modify the script to
> remove this, but where did it come from?  The kernel/driver must
> pass /devices in, so my loading line is now:
>
> cp "$FIRMWARE_DIR/$FIRMWARE" $SYSFS$DEVPATH/data
>
> But I now get this error:
>
> <6>ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> <6>ivtv:  version 1.0.0 (2.6.22.1 preempt mod_unload VIAC7 ) loading
> <6>ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> <6>ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> <3>firmware_loading_store: unexpected value (0)
> <3>ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836
> bytes)
> <3>ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
>
> And running the insmod ivtv.ko manually whilst quickly doing an 'ls'
> on /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0 in another shell reveals no
> firmware directory is created.
>
> Wierd.  What did I do!!!!
>
> Nick
>
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