Re: dvb lock patch

From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dvb lock patch
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:39:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ_iqtbVzU9zg_ERvhrbVr1vdgXXhyxJYdAmT0F1h_2ixP-==Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL9G6WVK=YKGOsB3VV_0B8RRvX0LnTNps1d=zTyV9mdfkirQ8g@mail.gmail.com>

2012/4/18 Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano@gmail.com>:
> El día 18 de abril de 2012 21:19, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab@redhat.com> escribió:
>> Em 18-04-2012 15:58, Ezequiel García escreveu:
>>> Josu,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2012/3/24 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>:
>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't sound right to me, and can actually cause race issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mauro.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the patch Mauro.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think Mauro is *not* giving you a patch, rather the opposite:
>>> pointing out that the patch can
>>> cause problems!
>>
>> Yes. The driver will be unreliable with a patch like that, due to
>> race conditions.
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ezequiel.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mauro.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> I am looking for a solution to use virtual adapters on MythTV to use
> my satellite provider card on two machines.
> With 2.6.32 kernel is working great, but there is no way to work with
> 3.x kernel.
>
> Is anyone using sasc-ng with latest kernel?
>

Would kernel 3.0.0.15 do?
If so, descriptions on how I did it here:
http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/digitaltv_sascng
http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/asrock_e350m1_xubuntu

Note: these are my work notes, not a how-to!

As you can see, I'm using this patch:
http://kipdola.be/subdomain/linux-2.6.38-dvb-mutex.patch

It seems to work for me (had it running with Kaffeine on encrypted
channesl for two weeks in a row)

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen