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

[Mike Bibbings]

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