How to bind TBS6984 in udev?

[winger]

I have two cards, after reboot adpter's in OS change numbers. How I can bind my card by MAC in udev?

[SergioDanielG]

Hi, refer to this article that explain how to "add dvb udev rules": http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filen ... Rules_file
It's not specific to bin by mac address, but an excelent example to do it.

Best regarsd.

[winger]

I do it, and it working fine for skystar2 with one tuner. But for tbs6984 not!

root@user-desktop:/etc/udev/rules.d# cat 10-local.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:06:02.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter100/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"
SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:06:01.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter101/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"
SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:06:00.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter102/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"
SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:03:00.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter103/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"
SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:02:00.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter107/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"

#SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:03:00.0", ENV{afatech}!="two", ENV{afatech}="two", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter104/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"
#SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:03:00.0", ENV{afatech}=="two", ENV{afatech}="one", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter103/%%s $${K#*.}'", SYMLINK+="%c"


root@user-desktop:/etc/udev/rules.d# ls /dev/dvb
adapter0 adapter10 adapter101 adapter103 adapter2 adapter4 adapter6 adapter8
adapter1 adapter100 adapter102 adapter107 adapter3 adapter5 adapter7 adapter9


adapter 100,101,102 - skystar2 - working fine, BUT adapter 103, 107 not work! AND if I do like in comminted examples! Please help me to bind by MAC!!

[SergioDanielG]

If you want to use mac address, filter using SYSFS{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" where "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" is the mac adrress.
But I don't know if it work... I can test with a dual tuner two hours approximately, if you can wait...

Best regards

[winger]

Yes! I will wait! Thank's!!!!!!

[SergioDanielG]

Yes! I will wait! Thank's!!!!!!

I'm sorry winger, no lock from here... I need to read a litte more about udev rules because there are a lot of options. I'll try later. No more time today...

Best regards

[winger]

[SergioDanielG]

Do you know what driver use tbs6984?
For example, if it use cx23885:

sudo modinfo cx23885 -F parm
ci_dbg:Enable CI debugging (int)
ci_irq_enable:Enable IRQ from CAM (int)
ir_888_debug:enable debug messages [CX23888 IR controller] (int)
mpegbufs:number of mpeg buffers, range 2-32 (int)
mpeglines:number of lines in an MPEG buffer, range 2-32 (int)
mpeglinesize:number of bytes in each line of an MPEG buffer, range 512-1024 (int)
v4l_debug:enable V4L debug messages (int)
alt_tuner:Enable alternate tuner configuration (int)
adapter_nr:DVB adapter numbers (array of short)
i2c_debug:enable debug messages [i2c] (int)
i2c_scan:scan i2c bus at insmod time (int)
debug:enable debug messages (int)
card:card type (array of int)
vbibufs:number of vbi buffers, range 2-32 (int)
vbi_debug:enable debug messages [vbi] (int)
video_nr:video device numbers (array of int)
vbi_nr:vbi device numbers (array of int)
radio_nr:radio device numbers (array of int)
video_debug:enable debug messages [video] (int)
irq_debug:enable debug messages [IRQ handler] (int)
vid_limit:capture memory limit in megabytes (int)
netup_card_rev:NetUP Dual DVB-T/C CI card revision (int)
enable_885_ir:Enable integrated IR controller for supported
CX2388[57] boards that are wired for it:
HVR-1250 (reported safe)
TeVii S470 (reported unsafe)
This can cause an interrupt storm with some cards.
Default: 0 [Disabled] (int)

If it there adapter_nr param, you can use it to add modules options. In Debian /etc/modprove.d/dvb.conf

Code: Select All Code

# TBS6925 PCI-e DVB-s2 and TBS6982 PCI-e DVB-s2
#options stv090x adapter_nr=0,1,2

# TBS6920 PCI-e DVB-s2
options cx23885 adapter_nr=3

There TBS6925 options are deseable because the module haven't got adapter_nr param

Best regards

[ebogdan]

Hi, have you found any way to make udev read MAC address of the adapter port? I can't get it to report it, no mater what I do...

This could solve the bind to udev problem.

BTW, could this problem be solved by an updated linux driver? Or do the udev guys also need to work on it...?

[billyboy312]

Hi,

If anyone has not had any luck getting two cards to maintain stable adapter numbers then you could maybe try the method I used in my post for a quad DVB-T2 card and a single DVB-S2 card. This has proved to be stable over the last few weeks.

This does not use udev but instead delays the loading of the driver for the DVB-S2 card ensuring that the quad DVB-T2 card always grabs the first four adapter numbers.

http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=7747

Hopefully you can alter this accordingly for some positive results.

I have been using Linux Mint with Mythtv and it is now working very well.

Regards