Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2018, 18:01 +0200 schrieb Hans Verkuil: > On 05/15/2018 05:46 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2018, 16:28 +0200 schrieb Hans Verkuil: > > > On 05/15/18 15:07, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > usbtv_audio_fail: > > > > /* we must not free at this point */ > > > > - usb_get_dev(usbtv->udev); > > > > + v4l2_device_get(&usbtv->v4l2_dev); > > > > > > This is very confusing. I think it is much better to move the > > > > Yes. It confused me. > > > > > v4l2_device_register() call from usbtv_video_init to this probe function. > > > > Yes, but it is called here. So you want to do it after registering the > > audio? > > No, before. It's a global data structure, so this can be done before the > call to usbtv_video_init() as part of the top-level initialization of the > driver. Eh, but we cannot create a V4L device before the first device is connected and we must certainly create multiple V4L devices if multiple physical devices are connected. Maybe I am dense. Please elaborate. It seem to me that the driver is confusing because it uses multiple refcounts. Regards Oliver