From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261860AbULaLgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:36:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261861AbULaLgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:36:14 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:36042 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261860AbULaLgN (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:36:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Current saa7134 driver breaks KNC One Tv-Station DVR (card=24) From: Rusty Russell To: Johannes Stezenbach Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Bernhard Rosenkraenzer , Gerd Knorr In-Reply-To: <20041231020814.GA15220@linuxtv.org> References: <20041231020814.GA15220@linuxtv.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:29:47 +1100 Message-Id: <1104481787.2791.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 03:08 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > I've reported this before: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/17/275 > > The patch that Rusty posted doesn't seem to have it made into > module-init-tools-3.1. Bummer :-( Because it was a dumb idea, as your reply showed. You can't load any dependent modules because this module is not initialized yet (what if you loaded a module that depended on you, then failed your initialization?). Gerd has the real fix, IIRC. Rusty. A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman