Re: af9005/mt2060 module unload failure

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En/na Michael Krufky ha escrit:
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
>> En/na Trent Piepho ha escrit:
>>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>>> En/na Michael Krufky ha escrit:
>>>>>> Why dont you just use dvb_frontend_detach?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I retract that comment...
>>>>>
>>>>> The dvb-usb framework does this itself inside dvb-usb-dvb.c , inside
>>>>> dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_exit
>>>>>
>>>>> ... You should not have to do the symbol_put inside af9005-fe.c
>>>>>   If you remove that code, does it fix the issue?
>>>> Well, I'm doing the attach myself to attach the tuner to the frontend
>>>> the first time it is opened, so if I remove the code there will be at
>>>> least one reference to the mt2060 (or qt1010, depending on the model) so
>>>> it cannot be unloaded.
>>> The tuner gets attached once when you call dvb_attach() from
>>> af9005_fe_init.  It will get detached once when dvb_frontend_detach() is
>>> called.  Everything balanced.
>> but dvb_frontent_detach doesnt' know anynthing about the tuner (since 
>> it's in the frontend private data), so if I don't do the put_symbol 
>> myself in af9005_fe_release (as I do the dvb_attach myself in 
>> af9005_fe_init) there will be a dangling reference count, yes?
>>
>> Bye
> 
> Luca,
> 
> You are incorrect -- dvb_frontend_detach has access to the entire "struct
> dvb_frontend *fe" , and dvb-core will call fe->ops.tuner_ops.release function
> itself and dvb_frontend_detach will handle the module detachment.

Yes, but my tuner is in fe->demodulator_priv->tuner (probably a bad 
design, mind me, but that's was the best I could come up with at the time).

Bye
-- 
Luca

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