--- On Sat, 7/7/12, Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> wrote: <snipped> > > I am thinking either w_scan is doing something it > should not, in which case we should inform its author to > have this looked at, or the message does not need to be > there? > > As scandvb and all the other applications are able to set > desired > parameters without that error it must be w_scan issue. But scandvb does not work at all in my case (or rather, the bundled tuning files were wrong/out-dated). > And personally I don't care whole warning, returning some > error code > (which is likely -EINVAL) should be enough. It is not error > situation in > the mean of Kernel or device error - it is just user error > as user tries > to set unsupported frequency. It is possibly just too much information in klog/dmesg . > >>> The kernel seems happy while having the device > >> physically pulled out. But the kernel module does > not like > >> to be unloaded (modprobe -r) while mplayer is > running, so we > >> need to fix that. > >> > >> Yep, seems to refuse unload. I suspect it is > refused since > >> there is ongoing USB transmission as it streams > video. But > >> should we allow that? And is removing open device > nodes OK > >> as applications holds those? > > > > I am thinking about suspend/resume, the poorman's way, > which is to unload/reload. One interesting thing to try > would be to pause but not quit the application - either just > press pause, or say, 'gdb <mplayerbinary> > <pid>', and see if 'modprobe -r' can be made to work > under that sort of condition, if it isn't already. > > hmm, what is that kind of suspend/resume? > Is that different what is now implemented? In the good old days, for drivers which does not suspend/hibernate well, one can add a file /etc/pm/config.d/myfile containing SUSPEND_MODULES="modname" to get them unloaded on suspend. Does it work with mplayer/vlc running or pausing? -- 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
