Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH] V4L: struct video_device corruption | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:28:47 -0300 |
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Andrew,
Em Ter, 2006-07-25 às 02:06 -0700, Andrew Morton escreveu: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:42:19 -0700 (PDT) > Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote: > > > > Do we expect this will fix the various DVB crashes which people (including > > > Alex) have reported? > > > > This problem would only appear if VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off. If it was on, > > then all the code would agree it was on, and there would be no problems. > > If the crash is still there when VIDEO_V4L1 = y, then it's not related to > > this bug. > > > > If VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off, then some drivers (one of which is bttv) > > would have a different struct video_device than the video core code. This > > would break things so completely that it could crash just about anywhere. > > OK, thanks. Alex had > > # CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1 is not set > # CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT is not set > CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y That's explains the bug.
I'll send this patch, together with several other patches (including several V4L1 to V4L2 conversions) today to -git.
> Cheers, Mauro.
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