Hi Oliver, Oliver Endriss wrote: > ts_bus_ctrl does a kind of reference counting. > > For readers: > - fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe,1) is called during open > - fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe,0) is called during close > > For the one and only writer: > - fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe,1) is called during open > - fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe,0) is called when the thread exits, > usually after close To properly lock the bridge, fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe, 1) must be called only when the first user opens the device and fe->ops.ts_bus_ctrl(fe, 0) must be called only when the last user closes the device. I think that the option dvb_shutdown_timeout must be removed to fix the problem, where the frontend thread can be idle after close(). IMHO the thread should always be terminated when the last writer closes the device. The release function should then block until the thread really has terminated. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
