El 25/09/14 15:54, Frank Schäfer ha escrit: > > Am 23.09.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Luca Olivetti: >> El 23/09/14 20:52, Frank Schäfer ha escrit: >> >>>>> This seems to be an ancient bug, which is known at least since 5 1/2 years: >>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/4/350 >> [...] >>>> #if defined(CONFIG_MODULE) || defined(CONFIG_DVB_USB_AF9005_REMOTE) >>> What happens, if CONFIG_MODULES is enabled, but neither module >>> af9005-remote nor any other IR module is available ? >>> Has this ever been tested ? >> I think I tested at the time and symbol_request returned NULL in that >> case, however I'm not sure and I cannot find any documentation on how >> symbol_request is supposed to work in that case. > > Ok, thanks. > I assume noone wants to invest some time into this old driver and covert > it to todays kernel IR infrastructure as suggested by Antti ? :-) Not me ;-) > Then I'm going to send a patch with the > > #if defined(CONFIG_MODULE) || defined(CONFIG_DVB_USB_AF9005_REMOTE) > > approach. > That's at least better than leaving the bug unfixed. Yes, it's an acceptable workaround until the bug in symbol_request is fixed (because the bug actually is in symbol_request, isn't it?) Bye -- Luca -- 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
