From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756521AbYEZVOp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 17:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753528AbYEZVOh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 17:14:37 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53884 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753922AbYEZVOg (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 17:14:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:14:06 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Hans Verkuil Cc: Andy Walls , Douglas Landgraf , Alan Cox , video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Message-ID: <20080526181406.40f9e082@gaivota> In-Reply-To: <200805261846.35758.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> References: <20080522223700.2f103a14@core> <20080523090919.GA31575@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080526133457.6f892af9@gaivota> <200805261846.35758.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Could you send this patch to the ML for people to review and for Andy > > to port it to cx18? > > Unless there is an objection, I would prefer to take Douglas' patch and > merge it into the v4l-dvb ivtv driver myself. There were several things > in the patch I didn't like, but I need to 'work' with it a bit to see > how/if it can be done better. I didn't analyze his patch in detail. However, it is a starting point for you to work with. I'm sure you can improve it if needed. > I can work on it tonight and tomorrow. Hopefully it is finished by then. > I can move the BKL down at the same time for ivtv. It is unlikely that > I will have time to do cx18 as well as I'm abroad from Wednesday until > Monday, but I think Andy can do that easily based on the ivtv changes. This strategy seems OK to me. Cheers, Mauro