Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Harald Becker ra...@gmx.de wrote: The information of available channels is read from a description block transferred via an I2C interface on HDMI, during setup. This allows the devices to adapt it's functionality. In case this information does not match your

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Sam Liddicott s...@liddicott.com wrote: I bought this and worked well for me, taking SVGA and audio to hdmi out. Ex-Pro® AV-Pro VGA Audio to HDMI Converter, Full HD Support 1080p - Connect SVGA video R/L Audio to your HDMI monitor or HDTV [With upscaler],

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: I am new here, in the list. I wonder if 'read' can read from pipes, because the following should print 'testing' but instead 'got' remains undefined... $ echo testing | read got $ echo $got In your example, variable $got exists only

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Xabier Oneca -- xOneca
So pipes are executed in a subshell then? I though all remained in the same shell... Indeed, I have just tested in Bash and behaves the same (my surprise!) Well... at least I know my script can work, but wrapping some lines in curly braces. Thank you so much, Cristian! -- xOneca_,,_ 2013/10/9

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Tito
On Wednesday 09 October 2013 13:48:12 Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: So pipes are executed in a subshell then? I though all remained in the same shell... Indeed, I have just tested in Bash and behaves the same (my surprise!) Well... at least I know my script can work, but wrapping some lines

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi Denys ! The information of available channels is read from a description block transferred via an I2C interface on HDMI, during setup. This allows the devices to adapt it's functionality. In case this information does not match your needs the devices may enable or disable the wrong

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi ! $ echo testing | read got $ echo $got Your problem may not be the read command. When you enter Unix shell commands on the prompt, each such command is executed in its own subprocess (subshell). So you can't change variables (environment) of your main shell (as you might have done on a

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mit, 2013-10-09 at 13:48 +0200, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: So pipes are executed in a subshell then? Yes. Indeed, I have just tested in Bash and behaves the same (my surprise!) All publicly shells except zsh behave that way. IIRC/AFAIK POSIX and friends do not specify

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Xabier Oneca -- xOneca
2013/10/9 Harald Becker ra...@gmx.de: $ xyz=abc $ ( xyz=test; ) $ echo $xyz abc you will see the values of your variables doesn't change when commands run in a subshell ... and piping informations always means passing data between separate processes, so it forces the command to be run in

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi ! $ echo something | read something is as if written like: $ echo something | ( read something ) In principial yes, but second example may fork another subshell. First is required due to piping, second due to parentheses. Same as grouping commands with braces (curly or parenthesis), I

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
To be honest, any sane tech company with a large consumer product list (or even a small one) hide their engineering resources from contact by random end users. You really do not want random person who bought one consumer product of yours to be able to bombard your engineering resources with

Re: Ash internal 'read' command and pipes

2013-10-09 Thread Laurent Bercot
you will see the values of your variables doesn't change when commands run in a subshell ... and piping informations always means passing data between separate processes, so it forces the command to be run in its own subshell. You have to admit that it is not intuitive or user-friendly, to

ether-wake in BusyBox

2013-10-09 Thread Francesco Colista
Hi all. I'm getting crazy in make ether-wake working with bonding interface. I've eth0 and eth1 bonded together with bond0 interface. On that interface i've several vlans: bond0.10; bond0.20 and so on. With: ether-wake -i bond0.10 a4:1f:72:56:78:b3 (this mac is in bond0.10 vlan) I can't see

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Harald Becker ra...@gmx.de wrote: It should be not too difficult to override this auto-detection in firmware, that's why I wanted to ask firmware writers to implement that. If you ever find a firmware developer, willing to neglect his written contract to not tell

awk: empty function becomes undefined function

2013-10-09 Thread Jody Lee Bruchon
Apologies if this is already fixed; I can't check against trunk right now and don't see references to this problem online. While compiling gcc-4.8.1 in a uClibc environment with BusyBox providing 'awk' my compilation aborts with an undefined function error. Upon inspection of the offending awk

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Hin-Tak Leung ht...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: To be honest, any sane tech company with a large consumer product list (or even a small one) hide their engineering resources from contact by random end users. You really do not want random person who bought one

Re: awk: empty function becomes undefined function

2013-10-09 Thread John Spencer
On 10/09/2013 07:36 PM, Jody Lee Bruchon wrote: Apologies if this is already fixed; I can't check against trunk right now and don't see references to this problem online. yes, it's already fixed in git (author: bernhard reutner-fischner) and iirc also in latest busybox release While

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi Denys ! That's just wrong development model... Full ACK. But anyways, in my particular case, I don't even want to ask any questions - as a user, I merely have a RFE (request for enhancement). So they don't even have a way to take users' feedback? Have you tried the normal response channels?

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi Denys ! How to contact Philips firmware developers? Do you know this? On 29 January 2013 it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan-based Funai Electric for €150 million, with the audio business planned to transfer to Funai in the latter half

Re: How to contact Philips firmware developers?

2013-10-09 Thread Harald Becker
Hi Denys ! http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/uk-philips-idUKBRE90S0C820130129 Do you really think they are interested in extending there products, and/or do further development? -- Harald ___ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net