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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:43:06 -0800 From: Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org> To: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>, Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bttv: fix mutex use before init On 21:56 Tue 14 Dec 2010, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org> wrote: > > On 17:13 Sun 12 Dec 2010, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > >> * change &fh->cap.vb_lock in bttv_open() AND radio_open() to > >> &btv->init.cap.vb_lock > >> * add a mutex_init(&btv->init.cap.vb_lock) to the setup of init in bttv_probe() > > > > That seems like a reasonable suggestion. An openSUSE user submitted this > > bug to our tracker too. Here is the patch I am having him test. > > > > Would you mind testing it? > > No. :-) > > Without this patch (==vanilla 2.6.37-rc5) I got 2 more OOPSe by > restarting hal around 20 times. > After applying this patch, I did not see a single OOPS after 100 restarts. > So it looks like the fix is correct. Dave, Torsten- Great thanks for testing, can I get both you and Dave's Tested-by then? Mauro- can you please pick up this patch? Cheers, Brandon -- 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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