I cannot resist ;-) since I stumbled over the RCU documentation I seriously would like to invite several linuxtv people (especially Steven Stoth, Mauro Chehab, Michael Krufky, Manu Abraham last but not least myself [but I read already it] ;-) to read about RCU... "RCU is a synchronization mechanism that was added to the Linux kernel during the 2.5 development effort that is optimized for read-mostly situations. Although RCU is actually quite simple once you understand it, getting there can sometimes be a challenge. Part of the problem is that most of the past descriptions of RCU have been written with the mistaken assumption that there is "one true way" to describe RCU. Instead, the experience has been that different people must take different paths to arrive at an understanding of RCU. This document provides several different paths, as follows" http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/whatisRCU.html these few lines exactly cover a similar situation (but probably worse) about linuxtv which covers analogue and digital TV. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb