Hi,

more than a week without a comment ... I suppose the original mail was 
missed due to the kernel merge window. So I'll try again.

Nils Kassube wrote:
> while I was testing the upcoming Kubuntu 12.04 version (kernel
> 3.2.0), I found that the radio mode of my TV/FM card doesn't work
> any longer. There is only noise and no station is tuned. Until now I
> used Kubuntu 10.04 with kernel 2.6.32 and radio works. This is a
> rather old card (~10 years) detected as card type 24 and the only
> additional information I have about it is the sticker on the tuner
> which reads "FM1216/PH".
> 
> I compiled the latest mainline kernel (3.3.0) and the media_build
> tree to verify that the problem still exists. With debug options
> enabled I found this line in the syslog when I try to use the radio
> mode:
> 
> tuner 0-0060: Tuner doesn't support mode 1. Putting tuner to sleep
> 
> The line is written by function set_mode in tuner-core.c if
> check_mode returns -EINVAL. If I bypass the check_mode function
> (always return 0), the radio works. However, bypassing the check is
> certainly not a useful solution, so I tried to find the reason for
> the issue.
> 
> During the initialization of the btty driver, this is written to the
> syslog:
> 
>  1 bttv: driver version 0.9.19 loaded
>  2 bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
>  3 bttv: Bt8xx card found (0)
>  4 bttv: 0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:0c:07.0, irq: 21, latency: 132,
> mmio: 0xd2000000 5 bttv: 0: detected: (Askey Magic/others) TView99
> CPH05x [card=24], PCI subsystem ID is 144f:3002 6 bttv: 0: using:
> Askey CPH05X/06X (bt878) [many vendors] [card=24,autodetected] 7
> bttv: 0: radio detected by subsystem id (CPH05x)
>  8 bttv: 0: tuner type=5
>  9 i2c-core: driver [msp3400] using legacy suspend method
> 10 i2c-core: driver [msp3400] using legacy resume method
> 11 bttv: 0: audio absent, no audio device found!
> 12 i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy suspend method
> 13 i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy resume method
> 14 All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
> 15 tuner 0-0060: Setting mode_mask to 0x06
> 16 tuner 0-0060: tuner 0x60: Tuner type absent
> 17 tuner 0-0060: Tuner -1 found with type(s) Radio TV.
> 18 tuner 0-0060: Calling set_type_addr for type=5, addr=0xff,
> mode=0x04, config=0xffff8800 19 tuner 0-0060: defining GPIO callback
> 20 tuner-simple 0-0060: creating new instance
> 21 tuner-simple 0-0060: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and
> compatibles)) 22 tuner-simple 0-0060: tuner 0 atv rf input will be
> autoselected 23 tuner-simple 0-0060: tuner 0 dtv rf input will be
> autoselected 24 tuner 0-0060: type set to Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and
> compatibles) 25 tuner 0-0060: tv freq set to 400.00
> 26 tuner-simple 0-0060: using tuner params #0 (pal)
> 27 tuner-simple 0-0060: freq = 400.00 (6400), range = 1, config =
> 0x8e, cb = 0x90 28 tuner-simple 0-0060: Freq= 400.00 MHz, V_IF=38.93
> MHz, Offset=0.00 MHz, div=7023 29 tuner-simple 0-0060: tv 0x1b 0x6f
> 0x8e 0x90
> 30 tuner 0-0060: bt878 #0 [sw] tuner I2C addr 0xc0 with type 5 used
> for 0x04 31 bttv: 0: registered device video0
> 32 bttv: 0: registered device vbi0
> 33 bttv: 0: registered device radio0
> 
> While the driver has found both radio and TV according to line 17,
> the call to tuner_s_type_addr (line 18) is using mode=4 which means
> TV only. The function tuner_s_type_addr is called from function
> bttv_init_tuner in bttv-cards.c with this code snippet:
> 
>               tun_setup.mode_mask = T_ANALOG_TV;
>               tun_setup.type = btv->tuner_type;
>               tun_setup.addr = addr;
> 
>               if (bttv_tvcards[btv->c.type].has_radio)
>                       tun_setup.mode_mask |= T_RADIO;
> 
>               bttv_call_all(btv, tuner, s_type_addr, &tun_setup);
> 
> Well, the card definition for card 24 (0x18) doesn't set the
> has_radio option. Therefore a possible fix would be to add a line
> 
>                 .has_radio      = 1,
> 
> at the end of the card definition for this card. But I have no idea,
> if there are other boards of the same card type but without radio,
> so this might be a wrong approach.
> 
> OTOH, shouldn't the has_radio option be taken from the btv struct
> instead of the card definition? After all, the btv struct has the
> has_radio otion correctly set at this point (at least for my card).
> Then the modified code snippet above should look like this:
> 
>               tun_setup.mode_mask = T_ANALOG_TV;
>               tun_setup.type = btv->tuner_type;
>               tun_setup.addr = addr;
> 
>               if (btv->has_radio)
>                       tun_setup.mode_mask |= T_RADIO;
> 
>               bttv_call_all(btv, tuner, s_type_addr, &tun_setup);
> 
> This version might also fix the problem mentioned at [1].
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> [1] <https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/11/257>
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