Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:24:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> > 
> > saa7134-alsa is trying to initialize before the ALSA core has initialized.
> > Probably no one has tested CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134=y.
> 
> Adrian, does it work if you change the "module_init()" in 
> sound/sound_core.c into a "fs_initcall()"?

No, this didn't work.

What did work was to leave sound/sound_core.c alone and make the 
module_init() in drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.c a 
late_initcall() (plus disabling building of saa7134-oss.o because
otherwise saa7134-alsa.o wouldn't do anything).

> That should make sure that the sound core gets to initialize before normal 
> drivers do.
> 
> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux