Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Oberritter <obi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's impossible to clean up dvb_frontend.c, which looks quite
> unmaintained, without touching it.

It is quite unmaintained.  In fact, it was broken for numerous cards
for almost two years before I finally got someone in the Hauppauge UK
office to mail me a couple of affected boards to test with.

Now that it works, I'm very hesitant to see any chances made unless
there is a *very* good reason. It's just too damn easy to introduce
subtle bugs in there that work for "your card" but cause breakage for
others.

Devin

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