Sorry forgot to cc ml ... 2006/12/1, Christoph Pfister <christophpfister@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi, 2006/12/1, Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx>: > Hi everybody, > the following is a necessary comment responding to a mail from end of November: > I wrote: > Should I have done so? Fact is I waste 38 kB of Ram with two completely > enseless DST modules being compiled and loaded into RAM although I do not > need them at all! > > Chritoph Pfister wrote: > 1) with a 2.6.17+ kernel they aren't loaded (check modinfo dvb-bt8xx) > so you can simply remove / not install those modules > > Sorry, Chris: > With kernel 2.6.19 the partial destructive patch that I published several times now on this mailing list > is the only chance to get rid of DST and DST_CA. > If I simply delete them, dvb-bt8xx.ko simply does not load. Sorry Uwe, but with DVB_CORE_ATTACH=y and 2.6.17+ this works indeed (you can load dvb-bt8xx without dst*). This is exactly the purpose of dvb_attach: to break the static dependencies and load the modules at runtime if needed. So please stop posting patches to this pseudo-problem. > I just asked everybody to offer a non destructive interims fix until the new backend is ready. > Instead of this Manu Abraham nacks my docu patch - incredible! > Al I was asking for is and was a solution that does not execute dst_attch and dst_ca_attach > as default behaviour. It wwould just be very kind and pragmatic to offer an interims fix for that problem > until the bttv-independent backend will be mature. > > Apart from that I get a 0 kB tarball if I try to download the new backend tree as tar.bz2. > Can you check and fix this please? > > Cheers > > Uwe Christoph
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