After looking at the proposed solution, I personally find the
suggestion for a serialization flag to be quite ridiculous. As others
have mentioned, the mere presence of the flag means that driver
writers will gloss over any concurrency issues that might exist in
their driver on the mere assumption
Andy Walls wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:32 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Andy Walls wrote:
>
>>> I haven't taken a very hard look at this since I'm very busy this month.
>>>
>>> It looks OK so far.
>> Thank you for your review.
>>
>> One general comment: my main target of writing
matthieu castet a écrit :
matthieu castet a écrit :
Hi,
With my current kernel (2.6.32), if my dvb device is removed while in
use, I got [1].
After checking the source code, the problem seems to happen also in
master :
If there are users (for example users == -2) :
- dvb_unregister_fronte
This message is generated daily by a cron job that builds v4l-dvb for
the kernels and architectures in the list below.
Results of the daily build of v4l-dvb:
date:Sat Apr 3 19:00:19 CEST 2010
path:http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
changeset: 14536:a539e5b68945
git master:
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:32 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Andy Walls wrote:
> > I haven't taken a very hard look at this since I'm very busy this month.
> >
> > It looks OK so far.
>
> Thank you for your review.
>
> One general comment: my main target of writing the NEC decoder is to
I'm trying to get the Avermedia Duet A188 up and working again (see the list
about a year ago) and I'm running into the same problem. I'm using Manu's
SAA716x driver, and I've modified the budget version to identify with my card.
I copied the vp1028 frontend attach function and modified it to ca
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On the DVB side there seem to be only two sources that use the BKL:
>>
>> linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c: lock_kernel();
>> linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c: unlock_kernel();
>> linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c: lock_
- Original Nachricht
Von: Andy Walls
An: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Datum: 03.04.2010 02:47
Betreff: Re: [RFC] Serialization flag example
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 18:15 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>
> > In the case of a V4L x DVB type of lo
