Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: dvb shared datastructure bug?

["Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@gmail.com>]

On 2/13/07, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to kmalloc both struct dvb_device and
> > struct file_operations together instead of doing 2 separate allocations?
> > struct dvd_device_plus_fops
> > {
> >   struct dvb_device dev;
> >   struct file_operations fops;
> > } *dev_fops = kmalloc (sizeof (struct dvd_device_plus_fops), GFP_KERNEL);
> > *pdvbdev = dvbdev = (struct dvb_device *)dev_fops;
> > if (dev_fops == NULL)
> >   error handling;
> > memset (&dev_fops->fops, 0, sizeof (dev_fops->fops));
> > ...
> > dvbdev->fops = &dev_fops->fops;
>
> Maybe change struct dvb_device:
>
>  struct dvb_device {
>          struct list_head list_head;
> -        struct file_operations *fops;
> +        struct file_operations fops;
>          struct dvb_adapter *adapter;
>

We can of course do that, but if we do that now, i will have to rework
on the changes that which i have, but considering the changes that i
have i wouldn't want to do such a change right now as marcel
explained. But we can surely go in for this, as soon as the rest of
the API changes goes in, ie, multiproto + adaptor changes

manu