Hi Oliver, On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Oliver Endriss <o.endr...@gmx.de> wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Devin Heitmueller >> <dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> wrote: >> > Also, the dvb_frontend.c makes calls to i2c_gate_ctrl() at various >> > points, so you would need to ensure that none of those occur before >> > calling into your driver as there could potentially be a deadlock >> > there too. >> >> Ok, thanks for the pointer. The gate control is never called >> externally in reality. I will wait a little while for this patch to be >> applied. It removes the exported function and thereby an unnecessary >> dereference. >> >> http://jusst.de/hg/stv090x/rev/b3d28f5b2b53 > > Imho not a good idea, as the frontend thread calls > - fe->ops.tuner_ops.init > - fe->ops.tuner_ops.sleep > > If you remove fe->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl, init and sleep will fail, > because gate_ctrl was never called...
tuner Init is already called within the demodulator control loop: ie, init I have moved in tuner Sleep likewise. http://jusst.de/hg/stv090x/rev/5699b0d87a12 I think that would fix the issues at hand ... Thanks for the pointer, Regards, Manu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
