linux-kernel - Re: Kernel 5.2.8 - au0828

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:15:17 -0500
From:   Nathan Royce <nroycea+kernel@...il.com>
To:     Brad Love <brad@...tdimension.cc>
Cc:     sean@...s.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 5.2.8 - au0828 - Tuner Is Busy

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:42 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> If you revert that one commit, does things start working again?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Hey Greg, I just got finished building it after running "$ git revert
812658d88d26" and verifying it reverted by comparing one of the files
from git log -p, but alas, no joy.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:41 PM Brad Love <brad@...tdimension.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> I don't have a "woodbury", but I have a Hauppauge 950Q sitting around
> and tested it on latest mainline kernel. w_scan is ok and streaming is
> fine. There's no unexpected errors. The 950Q uses the same au0828 bridge
> and au8522 demod as woodbury, but a different tuner. Your problem
> wouldn't appear to be a general au0828 issue.
>
> You might have to check out git bisect. That will be the quickest way to
> get to the bottom, if you've got points A and B, and are
> building/running your own kernel.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad
Thanks Brad, I'll explore bisecting and hopefully will be able to
narrow down the cause.
I wasn't running my own kernel, but rather using the Arch Linux kernel
and modding the one module and putting it in "extramodules".