Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 21:03 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: [...] Thanks again. This and related problems should be fixed by - 8a317a87 ([media] cx88: protect per-device driver list with device lock) - 1fe70e96 ([media] cx88: fix locking of sub-driver operations) - 1d6213ab ([media] cx88:

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-05-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 619827 = upstream fixed-upstream quit Hi, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 17:06 +0200, Huber Andreas wrote: Processes that try to open a cx88-blackbird driven MPEG device will hang up. [...] Could you test whether this patch fixes the problem? Thanks again. This and related

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-04-02 Thread Andreas Huber
Jonathan has provided a new patch set. (RFC in progress.) And while testing it today an unrelated issue occurred which needs to be resolved ... The driver's active_ref count may become negative which leads to unpredictable behavior. (MPEG video device

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:28 +0200, Andreas Huber wrote: Jonathan has provided a new patch set. (RFC in progress.) And while testing it today an unrelated issue occurred which needs to be resolved ... [...] I'm not going to spend more time looking at this in detail. Please let us know when

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-04-02 Thread Andreas Huber
On 02.04.2011 17:18, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I'm not going to spend more time looking at this in detail. Please let us know when a complete fix has been accepted upstream. Ben. Just for clarification, what I think is going wrong in cx88-mpeg.c, it's very simple, see the comments ...

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-04-02 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 08:01:15PM +0200, Andreas Huber wrote: please review this simple fix! Please let us know when a complete fix has been accepted upstream. Groeten Geert Stappers -- And is there a policy on top-posting vs. bottom-posting? Yes. signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-04-01 Thread Andreas Huber
Continuing Ben's work, I fixed all remaining issues. Patch was uploaded to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31962 Everything works fine for me now. regards Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-03-30 Thread Andreas Huber
Ok, thanks! On 30.03.2011 23:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: All mail regarding Debian bugs should be cc'd to the bug address (in this case, 619...@bugs.debian.org). I am not going to spend more time trying to fix this, as I don't know the media/DVB system well and do not have the hardware in

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 17:06 +0200, Huber Andreas wrote: Package: linux-source-2.6.38 Version: 2.6.38-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream [Symptom] Processes that try to open a cx88-blackbird driven MPEG device will hang up. [Cause] Nestet mutex_locks (which are not allowed) result

Bug#619827: linux-source-2.6.38: [linux-dvb] cx88-blackbird broken (since 2.6.37)

2011-03-27 Thread Huber Andreas
Package: linux-source-2.6.38 Version: 2.6.38-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream [Symptom] Processes that try to open a cx88-blackbird driven MPEG device will hang up. [Cause] Nestet mutex_locks (which are not allowed) result in a deadlock. [Details] There has been resent work on removing BKL