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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken
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On Sat, 1 May 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> It seems the DVB updates broke this.
> 
> Please _undo_ the patch below.

No, there's something wrong. Nobody should use a global "errno" variable, 
and we should fix the real bug (it's probably some buggy system call 
"interface" function that is being used).

Can somebody who sees this problem please try to figure out where the 
buggy user of "errno" is?

		Linus