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. Regards, Michael Krufky _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
