On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:54:15 -0600 (CST) kilgota@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Indeed, the problem is there! You must have only one process > > reading the webcam! I do not see how this can work with these 2 > > processes... > > The problem, then, would seem to me to boil down to the question of > whether that is up to us. Apparently, a decision like that is not up > to us, but rather it is up to the compiler and to the rest of the > kernel to decide. Which, incidentally, appears to me to be a very > logical way to arrange things. Presumably, a dual- or multi-core > machine gives certain advantages, or it ought to, but it also > requires certain accommodations. Yes, a multiprocessor machine is a plus, but, you must run only one process to handle streaming. If you have not seen it yet, this is done changing the line 373 of sq905.c (if I have the same source as yours) from: dev->work_thread = create_workqueue(MODULE_NAME); to dev->work_thread = create_singlethread_workqueue(MODULE_NAME); -- Ken ar c'hentan | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** Jef | http://moinejf.free.fr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
