On 24.08.2011 20:06, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Oberritter <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's impossible to clean up dvb_frontend.c, which looks quite >> unmaintained, without touching it. > > It is quite unmaintained. In fact, it was broken for numerous cards > for almost two years before I finally got someone in the Hauppauge UK > office to mail me a couple of affected boards to test with. > > Now that it works, I'm very hesitant to see any chances made unless > there is a *very* good reason. It's just too damn easy to introduce > subtle bugs in there that work for "your card" but cause breakage for > others.
Instead of wasting your time with theory, you could have easily reviewed my patch. It's really *very* simple any anyone having used semphores or mutexes in the kernel should be able to see that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
