[mythtv-users] 'dvb attach' problem with old saa7134 hardware and new kernels

[John Pilkington]

On 13/09/2023 13:07, John Pilkington wrote:
> I have two systems affected by this.  They have been working for years 
> but the cards don't initialise with  new kernel-ml-6.5.2-1.el7.elrepo or 
> 6.4.15-100.fc37.
> 
> dmesg:  DVB: Unable to find symbol tda10046 attach()
> 
> It's known, and likely to be fixed soon...
> 
>   Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules
> 
>  > .. and it turns out dvb_attach has already been deprecated for 5 years
>  > time, it's just that it still has all these users around.
> 
>  > Yeah, apis never seem to go away.  I'm scripting it now, almost done...
> 


This has been fixed upstream:

[john at HP_Box ~]$ uname -r
6.5.3-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
[john at HP_Box ~]$ dmesg | grep -i adapt
.....
[ 24.859958] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
[ 24.859970] saa7134 0000:07:04.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 
(Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
[john at HP_Box ~]$

commit a38f77781a0995100979e790dc66a774f2ae36ed
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri Sep 8 10:20:36 2023 +0100

     media: dvb: symbol fixup for dvb_attach()