Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755689Ab1DESRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:17:13 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:51165 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755669Ab1DESRM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:17:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=vOILPj1Vs3E8z3i/qZD5UhcYcH/AEpg/eSnoHhLvK4J4hItLzCSFDn/Aeuhx0Zdk2P Ws+kTLOnisY92j9ZDxv+1Rfy10Is5CJWByR4+8jR0xM/jNRKlztcfZfB8tZNL+WqVoTH oSm423lDo9jf+9HPQ5qEdzhpfT31S/x3U5630= Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:17:01 -0500 From: Jonathan Nieder To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Huber Andreas , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings , Steven Toth Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 0/7] locking fixes for cx88 Message-ID: <20110405181700.GA28181@elie> References: <20110327150610.4029.95961.reportbug@xen.corax.at> <20110327152810.GA32106@elie> <20110402093856.GA17015@elie> <20110405032014.GA4498@elie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110405032014.GA4498@elie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1109 Lines: 30 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jonathan Nieder (7): > [media] cx88: protect per-device driver list with device lock > [media] cx88: fix locking of sub-driver operations > [media] cx88: hold device lock during sub-driver initialization > [media] cx88: use a mutex to protect cx8802_devlist > [media] cx88: handle attempts to use unregistered cx88-blackbird > driver > [media] cx88: don't use atomic_t for core->mpeg_users > [media] cx88: don't use atomic_t for core->users Good news: Andreas Huber tested on a PC with 2 Hauppauge HVR1300 TV cards. He writes: > Hi Jonathan, I'm glad to say it works! No more deadlocks, > no more reference count issues. > > I did some stress testing on the driver load and unload mechanism > with and without the video devices being in use. And it was > handled all very well. > > Great job, thanks! -- 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/