Re: Technisat Cablestar HD2 not automatically detected by kernel > 2.6.33?

Jos Hoekstra <[email protected]> writes:

> I got this card and it doesn't seem to be detected by Ubuntu 10.4.2
> with kernel 2.6.35(-25-generic #44~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 25
> 19:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
>
> The wiki seems to indicate that this card is supported as of kernel
> 2.6.33, however it doesn't show up as a dvb-adapter.
[..]
> After rebooting it however seems I need to manually modprobe mantis
> and restart the backend to have mythtv work with this card. Is there =
a
> way to make these modules load automatically after a reboot?

This is fixed by the following trivial patch, which was finally include=
d
in kernel 2.6.38:


commit 116d588ea21cf0278a4de1e3272e9c3220a647e7
Author: Manu Abraham <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Feb 11 04:11:05 2010 -0300

    [media] Mantis, hopper: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
   =20
    use the macro to make modules auto-loadable
   =20
    Thanks to Ozan =C3=87a=C4=9Flayan <[email protected]> for pointing=
 it out
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    Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/hopper_cards.c b/drivers/media/dv=
b/mantis/hopper_cards.c
index 09e9fc7..70e73af 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/hopper_cards.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/hopper_cards.c
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ static struct pci_device_id hopper_pci_table[] =3D =
{
        { }
 };
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+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, hopper_pci_table);
+
 static struct pci_driver hopper_pci_driver =3D {
        .name           =3D DRIVER_NAME,
        .id_table       =3D hopper_pci_table,
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_cards.c b/drivers/media/dv=
b/mantis/mantis_cards.c
index cf4b39f..40da225 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_cards.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_cards.c
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ static struct pci_device_id mantis_pci_table[] =3D =
{
        { }
 };
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+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mantis_pci_table);
+
 static struct pci_driver mantis_pci_driver =3D {
        .name           =3D DRIVER_NAME,
        .id_table       =3D mantis_pci_table,



The best way to work around the problem until you upgrade your kernel t=
o
2.6.38 or newer, is probably just adding mantis to /etc/modules.


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