Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Manu, > >> From my side, quite some time has been put forward to write that mail. >> Inspite of that if you feel that you do have to go your own way, then >> it is completely upto you. I would say: do as you feel in such a case. > > The point is that those issues are pending for a long time, and they > should be solved, especially the module removal issue (*) > > If you are so afraid about applying those changes, maybe the better is > to apply those patches at v4l-dvb tree and at -mm, asking people to > test. > > We may hold their commit on kernel mainstream until the next kernel > release, if nobody complains about, or otherwise revert the changes, if > they proofed to cause troubles at dst and/or dvb-bt8xx. > > Also, you (or others) may write another approach keeping the fixes with > an strategy more adequate for dst. > > Do you agree with this way? NACK > > -- > Cheers, > Mauro > > (*) Currently, dst can be removed only with "rmmod -f", due to a wrong > usage count. With Trent's patches, this were fixed. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.dvb/27792/match=re+linux+dvb+unable+rmmod+dst+bt8xx - 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/
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