This driver has quite a few locking issues that would only be made worse by your patch. A much better patch for this can be found here: http://desource.dyndns.org/~atog/gitweb?p=linux-media.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c5d8ebb602e9af46902c5f3d4d4cc80227d3f7c Regards, David Ellingsworth -- 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