Bug#693663: This driver is too buggy to live

2012-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 12:36 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > tags 693663 + confirmed > thanks > > Hello Ben, > > Thank you for your work to document all these issues. If there would > be an alternative, I would not hesitate to get rid of this module. > Unfortunately, there isn't. Thanks for accepting

Bug#693663: This driver is too buggy to live

2012-11-29 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 693663 + confirmed thanks Hello Ben, Thank you for your work to document all these issues. If there would be an alternative, I would not hesitate to get rid of this module. Unfortunately, there isn't. This module was originally written for Linu

Bug#693663: This driver is too buggy to live

2012-11-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: pvcam-dkms Version: 4.1.0-2 Severity: grave There is a complete lack of locking, memory barriers or anything that could protect against races: - Two tasks calling device_open() on the same camera at the same time may race and succeed, which violates the assumption that: /* With the