Mauro, This doesn't fix the problem *at all*. See http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg79474.html for the right fix. So for your patch: Nacked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Regards, Hans On 09/18/14 12:06, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > This reverts commit 9241650d62f79a3da01f1d5e8ebd195083330b75. > > The commit 9241650d62f7 was meant to solve a race issue that > affects Gstreamer version 0.10, when streaming for a long time. > > It does that by returning POLERR if VB2 is not streaming. > > However, it broke VBI userspace support on alevt and mtt (and maybe > other VBI apps), as they rely on the old behavior. > > Due to that, we need to roll back and restore the previous behavior. > > For more details, see: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84401 > > So, let's rollback the change for now, and work on some other > fix for it. > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pawel Osciak <pawel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > > v2: Just changed the description. > > This is a regression that broke a core feature with most (all) VBI > apps. We should hurry sending a fix for it. > > So, let's just revert the patch while we're discussing/testing a > solution that would solve Laurent's usecase scenario without breaking > VBI. > > PS.: this patch should, of course, be c/c to 3.16 too, but I think we'll > need to do a manual backport, as the check for q->error is likely newer > than 3.16. > > diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c > index 7e6aff673a5a..da2d0adcc992 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c > +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c > @@ -2583,10 +2583,10 @@ unsigned int vb2_poll(struct vb2_queue *q, struct file *file, poll_table *wait) > } > > /* > - * There is nothing to wait for if no buffer has been queued and the > - * queue isn't streaming, or if the error flag is set. > + * There is nothing to wait for if no buffer has been queued > + * or if the error flag is set. > */ > - if ((list_empty(&q->queued_list) && !vb2_is_streaming(q)) || q->error) > + if (list_empty(&q->queued_list) || q->error) > return res | POLLERR; > > /* > -- 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