Here's the new patch for the deadlock problem, which releases the device mutex
before calling em28xx_init_extension() and then reacquires it afterwards. The
locking in dvb_init() is now left alone.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rankin <ranki...@yahoo.com>
--- linux-3.0/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c.orig 2011-08-19 00:45:48.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.0/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c 2011-08-20 23:28:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -2929,7 +2929,9 @@
goto fail_reg_analog_devices;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
em28xx_init_extension(dev);
+ mutex_lock(&dev->lock);
/* Save some power by putting tuner to sleep */
v4l2_device_call_all(&dev->v4l2_dev, 0, core, s_power, 0);