Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966752AbXEGVZh (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:25:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966550AbXEGVZh (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:25:37 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:59620 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966537AbXEGVZg (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:25:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cfX6L61tQv5oBM6C0aVjUkmv/R/R0+CCbWlwJawVRpR1tGh6uHPWXMwo7yNMtUajzpIbaNN0VLffIlyVI1JrPWrenAZ1FXMCXrflYv7pUW7YFXQgkjh8VssWQZKKM6zo95P3o9JgroqibnpXbPBvK1IzMBrQZBYyfZjuQfDMX0o= Message-ID: <463F9941.1060303@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:25:21 +0400 From: Manu Abraham User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab CC: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...) References: <46389278.1070208@gmail.com> <20070502155125.280320@gmx.net> <4638C046.1020005@gmail.com> <20070503112013.272380@gmx.net> <4639F554.1040505@gmail.com> <20070503153129.268110@gmx.net> <463A0462.5070106@gmail.com> <463A0B36.5080204@gmail.com> <1178215045.12651.124.camel@localhost> <463A31EE.20907@gmail.com> <1178388401.12541.115.camel@localhost> <463CD106.3000706@gmail.com> <1178571269.18383.296.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1178571269.18383.296.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1411 Lines: 40 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/