From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261914AbULGUgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:36:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261920AbULGUgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:36:09 -0500 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.227.36.84]:34279 "EHLO email.convergence2.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261914AbULGUgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:36:04 -0500 Message-ID: <41B613E1.2010602@linuxtv.org> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:34:41 +0100 From: Michael Hunold User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerd Knorr CC: Eyal Lebedinsky , Michael Hunold , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc3 oops when 'modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx' References: <41B1BD24.4050603@eyal.emu.id.au> <87653ex9wy.fsf@bytesex.org> In-Reply-To: <87653ex9wy.fsf@bytesex.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Am 12/07/04 19:03, Gerd Knorr schrieb: > I somehow feel the best way to deal with that is to merge the > redesigned frontend handing pending in -mm at the moment into Linus > tree _now_, that should kill that whole class of bugs. Johannes and I had agreed with Andrew that the redesigned frontend code should stay in -mm for now, because we expect that support for some cards is broken. We currently don't receive very much reports on the mailing list though. > That may result in the dvb subsystem not being that stable in 2.6.10. > But dvb not being rock solid in 2.6.10 will very likely happen anyway > as the code currently in Linus' tree isn't very stable as well. I > think the chance that it gets even worse is small enougth that we can > take the risk. > > Additional bonus would be that we don't get bugreports for the old > code base which is already obsolete (and nobody wants to work on > because of that). > > Michael? I just spoke to Johannes and we agree with you, Gerd. The DVB changes can and should be merged from -mm now. There is a fair chance that the remaining issues with broken cards can be resolved before 2.6.10. The code is in a good shape and only some small patches are missing from the LinuxTV.org CVS. I can prepare a patch that fixes the support for some cards and other minor improvements tomorrow. > Gerd CU Michael.