Steven Toth wrote: >> Hartmut, Oliver and Trent: Thanks for helping with this issue. I've just >> reverted the changeset. We still need a fix at dm1105, au0828-dvb and >> maybe >> other drivers that call the filtering routines inside IRQ's. > > Fix the demux, add a worker thread and allow drivers to call it directly. > > I'm not a big fan of videobuf_dvb or having each driver do it's own > thing as an alternative. > > Fixing the demux... Would this require and extra buffer copy? probably, > but it's a trade-off between the amount of spent during code management > on a driver by driver basis vs wrestling with videobuf_dvb and all of > problems highlighted on the ML over the last 2 years. > > demux->register_driver() > demux->deliver_payload() > demux->unregister_driver() > > Then deprecate sw_filter....N() methods. > > That would simplify drivers significantly, at the expense of another > buffer copy while deliver-payload() clones the buffer into its internal > state to be more timely. I meant to add... The cx18 and a few other smaller drivers (flexcop?) dvb drivers also call directly. cx23885/cx88 does not. - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
