Re: Question about 2 gp8psk patches I noticed, and possible bug.

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Em Sat, 12 Nov 2016 02:20:37 -0800
VDR User <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Ok, I think I had too much patching going on (I switched from 4.8.4
> kernel drivers to media_build) so I started from scratch with a fresh
> update to kernel 4.8.7. First I applied the dma stuff in this order:
> 
> (from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/37395/raw/)
> v2-18-31-gp8psk-don-t-do-DMA-on-stack.patch
> (from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/37386/raw/)
> v2-19-31-gp8psk-don-t-go-past-the-buffer-size.patch
> (from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/37929/raw/)
> media-gp8psk-fix-gp8psk_usb_in_op-logic.patch
> 
> It works fine at this point but we still have the attach bug. Then I applied:
> 
> (from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/38040/raw/)
> Question-about-2-gp8psk-patches-I-noticed-and-possible-bug..patch
> 
> Attach bug is fixed, tuning works, module unloads without crashing.
> Everything seems ok! I think the gp8psk issues are resolved with the
> above 4 patches. As you know, there are some other drivers which
> attach the same way as gp8psk was.
> 
> Thanks for your help & patience!

Great!

> 
> One quick question.. Shouldn't gp8psk_fe be listed in the "used by"
> column of dvb_usb_gp8psk or the other dvb_* modules?:
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> gp8psk_fe               3803  1

No, the way dvb_attach works don't list what modules use it.
There were a pathset fixing it back in 2008 or something, but
it were never applied upstream.

> dvb_usb_gp8psk          7344  19
> dvb_usb                17495  1 dvb_usb_gp8psk
> dvb_core               62327  1 dvb_usb




Cheers,
Mauro
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