Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Michael Krufky wrote: > >>Graeme Christie wrote: >> >> >>>It seems to me as if this bug has resurfaced again. I had no problems >>>loading bttv with my twinhan VP1030A with the 2.6.12 kernel (actually >>>patched for gentoo-sources, but I don't think there were any bttv >>>related patches). When trying to upgrade to either 2.6.13-rc3 or >>>2.6.13-rc3-mm1 I was getting a hang when loading bttv, both from the >>>kernel vedeo4linux tree and from the latest cvs (18/7/2005). I applied >>>the patch Manu posted months ago from >>>http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050404/00967085/bttv-cards.c-0001.bin >>>to the video4linux cvs source compiled againt 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 and the >>>problem was fixed. >>> >>>Just thought that anyone else crawling this list for fixed might want >>>to know. Did the fix not make it into the video4linux cvs tree ? (the >>>patch applied cleanly) >> >>I am one of the "cvs maintainers" of the video4linux tree... The >>official maintainer is on vacation right now. Is this an analog board >>or a DVB board? Can you send the link to the original email? The file >>linked to above is showing up as a binary file and I don't know what to >>do with it. >> >>If the patch that you speak of is indeed a patch to the video4linux >>tree, and it prevents a hang in the bttv driver, then sure, it should be >>applied. Please send that patch into the video4linux list >><video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> and then it can be applied to cvs, and if >>it actually fixes a bug and doesnt break anything else, then we can even >>apply it to 2.6.13 before it gets released. > > > There is a better patch. It probably got lost because it was > applied to the kernel which v4l was maintainer- and CVS-less. Any idea whether the i2c timing patch also got lost ? Manu
