FYI I too experienced the problem of hanging and used the patch dated 6th April to get it working. However I do have the problem that sound does not always work/come on. Once it is started it stays, getting it started is not reliable. On 01/05/11 10:17, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Since v2.6.37 (BKL removal), trying to open a cx88-blackbird driven > MPEG device would hang. Ben Hutchings provided an initial patch[1] to > fix that, and Andi Huber helped a lot in finding races that patch had > missed. Ben requested that I take authorship of the series, so I've > done so. > > These patches have visited the list twice before[2], towards the > beginning of this month. No feedback from maintainers or reviewers > --- I'm beginning to wonder if I have the right list. Luckily two > people[3][4] experiencing this problem on bugzilla were kind enough to > test the series and found it worked okay. > > Patches are against v2.6.38 (but they do not conflict with anything in > media-tree/staging/for_v2.6.40). The intent is to include them in > v2.6.40 if possible. A copy of these patches is also available for > convenient fetching from > > git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/jrn.git cx88-locking > > Thoughts? > > Jonathan Nieder (7): > [media] cx88: protect per-device driver list with device lock > [media] cx88: fix locking of sub-driver operations > [media] cx88: hold device lock during sub-driver initialization > [media] cx88: protect cx8802_devlist with a mutex > [media] cx88: gracefully reject attempts to use unregistered > cx88-blackbird driver > [media] cx88: don't use atomic_t for core->mpeg_users > [media] cx88: don't use atomic_t for core->users > > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.c | 41 +++++++++++++++------------- > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.c | 2 + > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-mpeg.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++---------- > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c | 5 ++- > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88.h | 11 +++++-- > 5 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/619827 > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1118815 > [3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31792 > [4] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31962 > -- > 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 > -- 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
