From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966856AbXEGUyw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:54:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966590AbXEGUyr (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:54:47 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34886 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966598AbXEGUyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:54:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...) From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Manu Abraham Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Stezenbach In-Reply-To: <463CD106.3000706@gmail.com> References: <46389278.1070208@gmail.com> <20070502155125.280320@gmx.net> <4638C046.1020005@gmail.com> <20070503112013.272380@gmx.net> <4639F554.1040505@gmail.com> <20070503153129.268110@gmx.net> <463A0462.5070106@gmail.com> <463A0B36.5080204@gmail.com> <1178215045.12651.124.camel@localhost> <463A31EE.20907@gmail.com> <1178388401.12541.115.camel@localhost> <463CD106.3000706@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 17:54:29 -0300 Message-Id: <1178571269.18383.296.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0-5mdv2007.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Manu, > From my side, quite some time has been put forward to write that mail. > Inspite of that if you feel that you do have to go your own way, then > it is completely upto you. I would say: do as you feel in such a case. The point is that those issues are pending for a long time, and they should be solved, especially the module removal issue (*) If you are so afraid about applying those changes, maybe the better is to apply those patches at v4l-dvb tree and at -mm, asking people to test. We may hold their commit on kernel mainstream until the next kernel release, if nobody complains about, or otherwise revert the changes, if they proofed to cause troubles at dst and/or dvb-bt8xx. Also, you (or others) may write another approach keeping the fixes with an strategy more adequate for dst. Do you agree with this way? -- Cheers, Mauro (*) Currently, dst can be removed only with "rmmod -f", due to a wrong usage count. With Trent's patches, this were fixed.