>> In short, that code cannot be removed. > > Sure it can. I just tried tvtime and you are right, it blocks the GUI. > But the fix is very easy as well. So now I've updated tvtime so that > it timeouts and gives the GUI time to update itself. That's a nice change to tvtime and I'm sure it will make it more robust. > No more need for such an ugly hack in au0828. The au0828 isn't the only > driver that can block, others do as well. Admittedly, they aren't very > common, but they do exist. So it is much better to fix the application > than adding application workarounds in the kernel. You're breaking the ABI. You're making a change to the kernel that causes existing applications to stop working. Sure you can make the argument that applications probably never should have expected such behavior (even if it's relied on that behavior for 15+ years). And sure, you can make a change to the application in some random git repository that avoids the issue, and that change might get sucked in to the major distributions over the next couple of years. That doesn't change the fact that you're breaking the ABI and everybody who has the existing application that updates their kernel will stop working. Please don't do this. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
