On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, the dvb_frontend.c makes calls to i2c_gate_ctrl() at various > points, so you would need to ensure that none of those occur before > calling into your driver as there could potentially be a deadlock > there too. Ok, thanks for the pointer. The gate control is never called externally in reality. I will wait a little while for this patch to be applied. It removes the exported function and thereby an unnecessary dereference. http://jusst.de/hg/stv090x/rev/b3d28f5b2b53 Thanks, Manu -- 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