Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:34:41 +0100 | From | Michael Hunold <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc3 oops when 'modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx' |
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Hi,
Am 12/07/04 19:03, Gerd Knorr schrieb: > I somehow feel the best way to deal with that is to merge the > redesigned frontend handing pending in -mm at the moment into Linus > tree _now_, that should kill that whole class of bugs.
Johannes and I had agreed with Andrew that the redesigned frontend code should stay in -mm for now, because we expect that support for some cards is broken. We currently don't receive very much reports on the mailing list though.
> That may result in the dvb subsystem not being that stable in 2.6.10. > But dvb not being rock solid in 2.6.10 will very likely happen anyway > as the code currently in Linus' tree isn't very stable as well. I > think the chance that it gets even worse is small enougth that we can > take the risk. > > Additional bonus would be that we don't get bugreports for the old > code base which is already obsolete (and nobody wants to work on > because of that). > > Michael?
I just spoke to Johannes and we agree with you, Gerd. The DVB changes can and should be merged from -mm now. There is a fair chance that the remaining issues with broken cards can be resolved before 2.6.10.
The code is in a good shape and only some small patches are missing from the LinuxTV.org CVS.
I can prepare a patch that fixes the support for some cards and other minor improvements tomorrow.
> Gerd
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