Am 22.12.2013 19:14, schrieb Antti Palosaari: > On 22.12.2013 20:02, Frank Schäfer wrote: >> Am 22.12.2013 15:34, schrieb Antti Palosaari: >>> On 22.12.2013 15:51, Frank Schäfer wrote: >>>> Am 21.12.2013 20:55, schrieb Antti Palosaari: >>>>> On 21.12.2013 18:51, Frank Schäfer wrote: >>>>>> Hi Antti, >>>>>> >>>>>> thank you for reporting this issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> Am 18.12.2013 17:04, schrieb Antti Palosaari: >>>>>>> That same lock debug deadlock is still there (maybe ~4 times I >>>>>>> report >>>>>>> it during 2 years). Is that possible to fix easily at all? >>>>>> >>>>>> Patches are always welcome. ;) >>>>> >>>>> haha, I cannot simply learn every driver I meet some problems... >>>> Hint: >>>> >>>> If you report a bug ~4 times in 2 years but never get a reply, it >>>> usually means >>>> a) nobody cares >>>> b) nobody has the resources (time, knowledge) to fix it. >>>> >>>> So you either have to live with this issue or to fix it yourself. >>> >>> OK, as you request me to fix it, I will fix that by making DVB USB v2 >>> driver for these em28xx devices I have added. >>> >>> It should not be very much work as em28xx protocol is still relatively >>> easy. >> How would that help to get those lockdep false warnings fixed ? >> Btw: these warnings should appear for _all_ em28xx extensions (dvb, >> input, audio). > > I am already looking to silence that v4l2 lockdep report. It is hard > to say how much it is work as I simply don't know even reasons. > > I suspect that if I start learning and fixing em28xx driver it will > take week or two as a workload. Writing new dvb-usb driver is only max > 2 days of work and as a bonus you will get some missing features for > free: > 1) power-management > 2) suspend/resume > 3) PID filters Sure, but we already have a driver for these devices. I agree with you that em28xx is a big mess, but at least in this case it doesn't do anything wrong. Does this false warning really make you so nervous that you're willing to spent 2 days for it ? I appreciate that, but I suggest to spend these 2 days for fixing the issue instead of just avoiding it. Regards, Frank > > regards > Antti > -- 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
