Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:28:23 +0100 | From | Johannes Stezenbach <> | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: [OOPS] Linux 2.6.14.2 and DVB USB |
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 Patrick Boettcher wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Chris Rankin wrote: > >This sounds contrary to the entire concept of hotplugging to me. And I > >don't think that a typical > >desktop user would be happy to be told that s/he needs to become root and > >unload kernel modules > >before s/he can unplug a USB device. > > Unfortunately the dvb-core is currently not able to handle hotplugging > while a dvb application is accessing a dvb-dev-node. This applies > for every dvb-device, not only for dvb-usb devices, but no one ever tried > to unplug a DVB PCI card while using it, yet. > > Before unplugging a device, you can check if the module is removable to > make sure that really no application is currently using it. (You will get > "module in use" then). > > We already thought about that problem and we think that dvbdev.c is the > correct place to start implementing that, but I don't have enough > knowledge (and time) to do that now, sorry.
I thought someone sent a patch which fixes it for the cinergyT2 recently? Wouldn't the same approach work for dvb-usb? (But I haven't had a chance to test the cinergyT2 patch yet.)
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