[mythtv-users] Master in F28: dmesg spam about tuner firmware

[John Pilkington]

On 28/10/18 15:09, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 28/10/2018 14:58, John Pilkington wrote:
>> A few days ago I upgraded from Fedora 27 to 28 and installed the 
>> then-current master head, aede3ba, from locally built rpms.  All 
>> seemed ok and the usual things work.
>>
>> But now dmesg has two lines from tda1004x whenever a command is sent 
>> to the main (DVB-T) tuner, about setting up plls and checking the 
>> firmware state.  That used to happen, IIRC, only at boot, but now it's 
>> around once every 5 minutes as the EIT scan goes around, or when a 
>> recording starts.
>>
>> My el7 box has a similar tuner that also uses tda1004x, and the same 
>> MythTV version but without vpx and omx, and isn't doing this.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> John P 
> 
> 
> I have seen this before on other cards (driver) dependent e.g
> 
> [Oct28 14:33] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022644] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 14:38] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022521] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 14:44] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022514] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 14:49] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022538] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 14:54] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022464] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 15:00] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022549] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> [Oct28 15:05] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
> [  +0.022753] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
> 
> In my case, mythtv-setup changing setting Capture cards set to Open on 
> Demand to not selected fixes the dmesg spam.
> 
> 
> Mike

Yes, I may well have changed that fairly recently.  Now I have all 
tuners with 'open on demand' not selected and only this tuner selected 
for Active scan, and dmesg has been quiet for 30 min.  Thanks!

John