linux-kernel - Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

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Message-ID: <463F9EFF.1040705@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 01:49:51 +0400
From:	Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@...il.com>
To:	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>
CC:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-dvb@...uxtv.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical
 points about ...)

Michael Krufky wrote:
> Manu Abraham wrote:
>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Hi Manu,
>>>
>>>> From my side, quite some time has been put forward to write that mail.
>>>> Inspite of that if you feel that you do have to go your own way, then
>>>> it is completely upto you. I would say: do as you feel in such a case.
>>> The point is that those issues are pending for a long time, and they
>>> should be solved, especially the module removal issue (*)
>>>
>>> If you are so afraid about applying those changes, maybe the better is
>>> to apply those patches at v4l-dvb tree and at -mm, asking people to
>>> test.
>>>
>>> We may hold their commit on kernel mainstream until the next kernel
>>> release, if nobody complains about, or otherwise revert the changes, if
>>> they proofed to cause troubles at dst and/or dvb-bt8xx.
>>>
>>> Also, you (or others) may write another approach keeping the fixes with
>>> an strategy more adequate for dst.
>>>
>>> Do you agree with this way?
>> NACK
>>
>>> -- 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mauro
>>>
>>> (*) Currently, dst can be removed only with "rmmod -f", due to a wrong
>>> usage count. With Trent's patches, this were fixed.
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.dvb/27792/match=re+linux+dvb+unable+rmmod+dst+bt8xx
> 
> Just to make things clear, Manu, Are you telling us that the patch in the above
> link addresses the use count bug?
>

Yes

> If that is the case, are you suggesting that that patch be applied to the
> repository instead of Trent's changesets?
> 

Yes

> Moreso, if that is the case, then the patch in the above link lacks a
> sign-off...  We need to apply SOMETHING to fix this problem, and you know the
> rules...
> 

Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@...uxtv.org>

> What should be done to fix the use count bug?
> 

It does fix, AFAIR

Regards,
Manu
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