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Message-Id: <20060725020650.52865543.akpm@osdl.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:06:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> To: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org> Cc: mchehab@...radead.org, robfitz@...k.net, video4linux-list@...hat.com, 76306.1226@...puserve.com, fork0@...nline.de, greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rdunlap@...otime.net, v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, shemminger@...l.org Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH] V4L: struct video_device corruption On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org> wrote: > > Do we expect this will fix the various DVB crashes which people (including > > Alex) have reported? > > This problem would only appear if VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off. If it was on, > then all the code would agree it was on, and there would be no problems. > If the crash is still there when VIDEO_V4L1 = y, then it's not related to > this bug. > > If VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off, then some drivers (one of which is bttv) > would have a different struct video_device than the video core code. This > would break things so completely that it could crash just about anywhere. OK, thanks. Alex had # CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1 is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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