Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:33:38PM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote:
> Mauro,
> 
> I've been out of town for the past few days... I just got home and saw this:
> 
> 
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >    - Fix 1/3 for bug 7819: fixed frontend hotplug issue
> >    - Fix 2/3 for bug 7819: demux and dvr
> >    - Fix 3/3 for bug 7819: fixed hotplugging for dvbnet
> I don't think that this is 2.6.21 material.  These patches have not yet
> received
> enough testing to be sent to mainline.
> 
> I have tested them, and they seem to work for my cxusb device, but we have
> yet to hear test results from users of usb dvb devices that do not use the
> dvb-usb framework.  (ttusb, flexcop-usb, cinergyT2, for example)
> 
> The bug that these patches fix has been around throughout the entire kernel
> history of the dvb subsystem.  The bug is not a regression -- it has
> always been
> there.  In my opinion, it is too late in 2.6.21 development to apply
> this change.
> Because these fixes are not obvious, I think we should let them get some
> more testing, and have them queued for 2.6.22 .

Unless I misunderstand anything, this should fix [1].

And this is a bug that was reported to be present in 2.6.21-rc but not 
in 2.6.20 (and it's therefore a regression, no matter whether the 
underlying problem was older and only exposed by some other change).

> Regards,
> 
> Michael

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/212

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