>From Ian's e-mail:
When a device is opened the firmware state will be checked. If it isn't
responding then the open will fail with -EIO. Due to the nature of the
hardware, a single failed check will block everything since we don't know
exactly what has failed. A side effect of this is the blocking of debug
access, so an additional debug level has been created which allows the block
to be bypassed.
Andy Walls' modifications:
I modified Ian's patch to add a separate fw_debug module parameter to change
the driver's behavior, as opposed to using the normal debug module parameter.
The fw_debug module parameter is only available when CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG
is set.
I also made some minor whitespace adjustments and changed some warning
messages to be a bit more specific. s/happy/glad/g
Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
It took three core maintainers, over four years of work, eight new i2c
modules, eleven new V4L2 ioctls, three new DVB video ioctls, a Sliced
VBI API, a new MPEG encoder API, an enhanced DVB video MPEG decoding
API, major YUV/OSD contributions from Ian and John, web/wiki/svn/trac
support from Axel Thimm, (hardware) support from Hauppauge, support and
assistance from the v4l-dvb people and the many, many users of ivtv to
finally make it possible to merge this driver into the kernel.
Thank you all!
Signed-off-by: Kevin Thayer <nufan_wfk@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Kennedy <c@groovy.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: John P Harvey <john.p.harvey@btinternet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
