linux-kernel - Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] Re: Regression: VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl hangs on bttv driver (2.6.24-rc6)

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Message-ID: <20080107074337.1aabcf07@gaivota>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:43:37 -0200
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Douglas Landgraf <dougsland@...il.com>,
	Gregor Jasny <jasny@...soft.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	video4linux-list <video4linux-list@...hat.com>,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] Re: Regression: VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl
 hangs on bttv driver (2.6.24-rc6)

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:22:34 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Douglas Landgraf <dougsland@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> >     Gregor, we have converted bttv driver to use vidioc_ioctl2 some 
> > days ago. Could you check and create your patch against v4l 
> > development tree? Bttv driver does not have anymore bttv_do_ioctl().
> 
> this is about the bttv driver in 2.6.24-rc6/(rc7?) hanging. So whatever 
> the devel tree does, this fix (if it's a correct fix) needs to be 
> commited upstream ASAP.

For sure. I've just sent Linus a pull request for the fix.

On the devel tree, all this code got removed, replaced by a simple function
call at videobuf. So, I don't expect similar issues for 2.6.25.

I've already fixed the patch conflicts at devel branch for v4l/dvb -git tree.

Cheers,
Mauro
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