linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL for 2.6.32] V4L/DVB updates

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Message-ID: <20091130115701.40c92b2c@pedra>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:57:01 -0200
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:	Mike Isely <isely@...ly.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL for 2.6.32] V4L/DVB updates

Em Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:33:30 -0600 (CST)
Mike Isely <isely@...ly.net> escreveu:

> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 27 November 2009 22:40:01 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > On Friday 27 November 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > Hi Linus,
> > > > 
> > > > Please pull from:
> > > >         ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git for_linus
> > > > 
> > > > For the following drivers and building fixes:
> > > > 
> > > >    - radio-gemtek-pci: fix double mutex_lock
> > > >    - v4l: add more missing linux/sched.h includes
> > > >    - soc-camera: properly initialise the device object when reusing
> > > >    - soc-camera: sh_mobile_ceu_camera: call pm_runtime_disable
> > > >    - em28xx: fix Reddo DVB-C USB TV Box GPIO
> > > >    - davinci: remove stray duplicate config pointer
> > > >    - SMS_SIANO_MDTV should depend on HAS_DMA
> > > >    - cxusb: Fix hang on DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 (rev 1)
> > > >    - sh_mobile_ceu_camera: fix compile warning
> > > >    - Fix wrong parameter order in memset
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Please consider cherry picking the following two patches from Hans 
> > > Verkuil [1]:
> > > - add the missing s2250-loader.h
> > > - s2250 mutex patch	
> > 
> > Good catch. Mauro, can you please add these two as well for 2.6.32? I'm sure
> > I marked these two as high-prio patches. This staging driver is actively
> > being used and developed so this regression should be fixed.
> > 
> 
> Mauro:
> 
> I had also posted up two high priority pvrusb2 patches that should 
> really be cherry-picked for 2.6.32.  You've already pulled them into 
> v4l/dvb and I did mark them as high priority at the time.
> 
> These patches enable use of FX2 microcontroller firmware that is 16KB in 
> size.  Hauppauge is no longer shipping 8KB firmware for HVR-1950 and 
> HVR-1900 and without these changes then those devices won't work AT ALL 
> in kernel 2.6.32.
> 
> You can find these within the v4l-dvb Mercurial repository here:
> 
> Changeset 13495:87c3853fe2b3 
> Subject: pvrusb2: Support 16KB FX2 firmware
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/87c3853fe2b3
> 
> Changeset 13500:d4c418d4b25c
> Subject: pvrusb2: Fix lingering 16KB FX2 Firmware issues
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/d4c418d4b25c
> 
> I do not believe these patches have any ordering dependencies with other 
> patches, though between the two the second one technically should come 
> after the first.

There are. Picking just those patches broke compilation.

Also, it seemed too late for adding support for newer boards/firmware when Linus
is about to release a kernel.

Cheers,
Mauro
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