On Mon, Mar 13, 2006, Ole Reinartz wrote: > I'm struggling to automate the loading of saa7134-dvb for my Avermedia 777. > I'm using Jose Alberto Reguero's patch to get the 777 working, and it is > working well. However, whenever the system starts up, it detects the > card and loads the saa7134 module, but not the saa7134-dvb. After I > modprobe this module, everything is ok. > Is that working automatically at someones system? How can that be done? > > Now I searched the source for a reason and found out that someone > (probably Gerd Knorr himself) added a mechanism to load the saa7134-dvb > from the saa7134 whenever that detects a dvb- card. > The saa7134-dvb is dependent on saa7134, so it cannot be loaded while > the saa7134 itself is being loaded. So the code registers a notifier to > get notified after it got 'live' (i.e. its state changed to > MODULE_STATE_LIVE) I guess. And this notifier never gets called. > Looking in module.c (of kernel 2.6.15, which is the kernel I use) I find > that in sys_init_module() the notification mechanism is called only > before the module actually gets initialised, but not after that. That > confuses me a bit. Does someone know how this is going to work? Can the > module somehow act at the time it got 'live'? Well, I reported a bug (modprobe saa7134 deadlocked) which lead to some discussion on lkml and finally Gerd's changes. I suggest you look up the date of Gerd's change from the hg or cvs history, and then search for the lkml discussion around that time. Probably a piece of code from the module notification stuff went missing. It would be nice to get this fixed. HTH, Johannes _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
