Re: Fw: zoran drivers: absense of locking?

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 Andrew Morton wrote:
>  
>
> > Alexey, please don't assume that everyone reads lkml.
> >    
> I Cc: the v4l people, maybe they can answer the question.
>
> Johannes
>
>  
It's not in our tree... This is what I can see in the MAINTAINERS file:

ZR36067 VIDEO FOR LINUX DRIVER
P:      Ronald Bultje
M:      rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net
L:      mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net
W:      http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/driver-zoran/
S:      Maintained

ZR36120 VIDEO FOR LINUX DRIVER
P:      Pauline Middelink
M:      middelin@polyware.nl
W:      http://www.polyware.nl/~middelin/En/hobbies.html
W:      http://www.polyware.nl/~middelin/hobbies.html
S:      Maintained

I can only guess that this falls under ZR36067 ??  (cc's added)

> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:16:47 +0400
> > From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: zoran drivers: absense of locking?
> >
> >
> > I've tried to read random part of a tree and now scratching my head
> > with a question:
> >
> > 	what protects the number and a list of registered codecs in
> > 	zoran drivers?
> >
> > Example: drivers/media/video/zr36050.c:
> >
> > 	/* amount of chips attached via this driver */
> > 	static int zr36050_codecs = 0;
> >
> > Decremented in zr36050_unset().
> > Checked for maximum value, used and incremented in zr36050_setup().
> >
> > [Assigment to 0 in zr36050_init_module is not needed. dprintk() in
> > zr36050_cleanup_module() should be converted to BUG_ON, so I'll ignore
> > them.]
> >
> > 	zr36050_codecs
> > 		zr36050_unset()	= struct videocodec::unset
> > 		zr36050_setup()	= struct videocodec::setup
> >
> > The only place where ->unset and ->setup methods are called is
> > drivers/media/video/videocodec.c:
> >
> > 	zr36050_codecs
> > 		zr36050_unset()
> > 			videocodec_detach()
> > 		zr36050_setup()
> > 			videocodec_attach()
> >
> > Both videocodec functions are exported.
> >
> > No spinlocks or semaphores in sight.
> >
> > Does anybody know what protects the list of registered codecs in zoran
> > drivers?
> >
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