Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

>>Graeme Christie wrote:
>>
>>>It seems to me as if this bug has resurfaced again.
>>>
>It probably got lost because it was
>applied to the kernel which v4l was maintainer- and CVS-less.
>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6a27dd3dc46a5b5b?dmode=source&hl=en
>
>It would be cool if you could apply this patch to v4l CVS and
>send it to akpm for inclusion into 2.6.13 (hopefully), as
>the "hang at boot" issue is quite nasty.
>
Fix Bug 4395: modprobe bttv freezes the computer

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4395. (link is dead now)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:20:08
Patch by Manu Abraham and Gerd Knorr: