From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030632AbXDPOP2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:15:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030651AbXDPOP2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:15:28 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:52118 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030632AbXDPOP2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:15:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:15:35 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Michael Krufky Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, Andrew Morton , video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, CIJOML Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates Message-ID: <20070416141535.GB10338@stusta.de> References: <1176653207.10849.5.camel@localhost> <4622C462.8020505@linuxtv.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4622C462.8020505@linuxtv.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed