Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread usleepless
Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code. problem is, i am not sure what to do. i have created a mutex which replaces the spltty and splx calls. but this crashes my box :-) the original code looks like this: /*

Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread usleepless
Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code. problem is, i am not sure what to do. i have created a mutex which replaces the spltty and splx calls. but this crashes my box :-) the original code looks like this: /*

Re: Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Moran
You might do better by subscribing to hackers@ and posting there. This question is a little more technical than this list usually deals with. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code.