From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: mchehab@infradead.org, robfitz@273k.net,
video4linux-list@redhat.com, 76306.1226@compuserve.com,
fork0@t-online.de, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH] V4L: struct video_device corruption
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:06:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060725020650.52865543.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0607250054410.18397@shell3.speakeasy.net>
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> > Do we expect this will fix the various DVB crashes which people (including
> > Alex) have reported?
>
> This problem would only appear if VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off. If it was on,
> then all the code would agree it was on, and there would be no problems.
> If the crash is still there when VIDEO_V4L1 = y, then it's not related to
> this bug.
>
> If VIDEO_V4L1 was turned off, then some drivers (one of which is bttv)
> would have a different struct video_device than the video core code. This
> would break things so completely that it could crash just about anywhere.
OK, thanks. Alex had
# CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1 is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-25 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 4:43 oops in bttv Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-13 5:05 ` Greg KH
2006-07-13 5:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-13 5:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-15 23:08 ` [PATCH] V4L: struct video_device corruption Robert Fitzsimons
2006-07-16 1:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-18 0:25 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Trent Piepho
2006-07-19 11:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-19 15:36 ` Michael Krufky
2006-07-20 21:57 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-21 12:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-21 20:06 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-21 20:30 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-21 22:55 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-23 9:35 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-24 2:16 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-24 12:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-24 22:06 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-25 17:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-25 3:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 7:57 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Manu Abraham
2006-07-25 8:42 ` Trent Piepho
2006-07-25 9:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-07-25 12:28 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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