On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:33:38PM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > Mauro, > > I've been out of town for the past few days... I just got home and saw this: > > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > - Fix 1/3 for bug 7819: fixed frontend hotplug issue > > - Fix 2/3 for bug 7819: demux and dvr > > - Fix 3/3 for bug 7819: fixed hotplugging for dvbnet > I don't think that this is 2.6.21 material. These patches have not yet > received > enough testing to be sent to mainline. > > I have tested them, and they seem to work for my cxusb device, but we have > yet to hear test results from users of usb dvb devices that do not use the > dvb-usb framework. (ttusb, flexcop-usb, cinergyT2, for example) > > The bug that these patches fix has been around throughout the entire kernel > history of the dvb subsystem. The bug is not a regression -- it has > always been > there. In my opinion, it is too late in 2.6.21 development to apply > this change. > Because these fixes are not obvious, I think we should let them get some > more testing, and have them queued for 2.6.22 .
Unless I misunderstand anything, this should fix [1]. And this is a bug that was reported to be present in 2.6.21-rc but not in 2.6.20 (and it's therefore a regression, no matter whether the underlying problem was older and only exposed by some other change). > Regards, > > Michael cu Adrian [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/212 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/