linux-kernel - Re: [4/4] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions

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Date:	Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:38:18 -0300
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, video4linux@...t.redhat.com,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@...k.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Thierry Volpiatto <tvolpiatt@...f.fr>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	discuss@...-64.org, Ioan Ionita <opslynx@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [4/4] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions

Hi Michal,

> Subject    : V4L ABI breakage
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/42
> Submitter  : Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@...k.net>
> Caused-By  : Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
>              Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
>              commit 206ebaf32795cf1582b1e2ff2ec6a560c9e986b8
> Workaround : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=15ac2d293b08b6975c6ca1a80eb839d4cb0dddbf
> Status     : problem is being debugged

I've just sent today a pull request to Linus with the proper fixes for
this issue. Some changes were done at the ABI to avoid the breakage,
while keeping the capability to control TV Out on ivtv driver. The
changes are being tested since Jun, 2.

The related changesets are those:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=987e00ba5cf667beed2b88bd1d01150334cdb6dc
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f137600cacf9a2908529c7d544de82672226a98

-- 
Cheers,
Mauro

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