On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Instead of using the DTV properties cache directly, pass the get > frontend data as an argument. For now, everything should remain > the same, but the next patch will prevent get_frontend to > affect the global cache. > > This is needed because several drivers don't care enough to only > change the properties if locked. Due to that, calling > G_PROPERTY before locking on those drivers will make them to > never lock. Ok, those drivers are crap and should never be > merged like that, but the core should not rely that the drivers > would be doing the right thing. > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michael Ira Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
