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From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Steve Kerrison <steve@stevekerrison.com>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug-report] unconditionally calling cxd2820r_get_tuner_i2c_adapter() from em28xx-dvb.c creates a hard module dependency
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:18:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyc9lbb1.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxi1n7ql.fsf@nemi.mork.no> ("Bjørn Mork"'s message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:53:06 +0200")

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:

> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c
> index 7904ca4..d994592 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c
> @@ -669,7 +669,8 @@ static int dvb_init(struct em28xx *dev)
>  			&em28xx_cxd2820r_config, &dev->i2c_adap, NULL);
>  		if (dvb->fe[0]) {
>  			struct i2c_adapter *i2c_tuner;
> -			i2c_tuner = cxd2820r_get_tuner_i2c_adapter(dvb->fe[0]);
> +			/* we don't really attach i2c_tuner.  Just reusing the symbol logic */
> +			i2c_tuner = dvb_attach(cxd2820r_get_tuner_i2c_adapter, dvb->fe[0]);

Except that this really messes up the reference count, and need to have
a matching symbol_put...  So you should probably code it with
symbol_request()/symbol_put() if you want to go this way instead of
the dvb_attach shortcut .


Bjørn 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01  9:45 [bug-report] unconditionally calling cxd2820r_get_tuner_i2c_adapter() from em28xx-dvb.c creates a hard module dependency Bjørn Mork
2011-06-01  9:49 ` Antti Palosaari
2011-06-01 10:31   ` Bjørn Mork
2011-06-01 10:53   ` Bjørn Mork
2011-06-01 17:18     ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2011-06-03 12:21       ` Antti Palosaari
2011-06-03 12:50         ` Bjørn Mork
2011-06-03 12:59           ` Antti Palosaari
2011-06-03 13:20             ` Bjørn Mork

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