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[linux-dvb] Re: Fwd: dvb-patch for 2.5er kernels
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Schultz wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 September 2002 15:22, Martin Fahr wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>>because the dvb-drivers didn't work with the new 2.5er kernels, I made the
>> changes by myself. The following patch applies to NEWSTRUCT-driver taken
>>via cvs at 09.09.2002. Of course there are still some problems, the most
>>important: The makefiles have to be changed. Because I am not familiar with
>>Makefiles, I had to use Makefile and Rules.make from some old kernel (the
>>kbuild-system changed in 2.5.21). I dont expect devfs to work. Correct me
>>if I am wrong.
>
>
> I've create a set of Config.in and Makefiles for 2.5. Archive is at:
> http://warp10.net/dvd/dvb-make.tgz
>
> The driver did not work for me with 2.5.42 and CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled, but it
> also did not lockup as has be reported before. I'm going to rebuild the
> kernel without PREEMPT and try again
> IWith CONFIG_PREEMPT i get the following warning in the syslog:
>
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: bad: scheduling while atomic!
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: Call Trace:
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [schedule+109/696] schedule+0x3d/0x2b8
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [acpi_install_address_space_handler+535/564]
> __delay+0x13/0x28
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [acpi_remove_address_space_handler+55/188]
> __const_udelay+0x1f/0x24
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [sys_sched_get_priority_max+15/40]
> __cond_resched+0x17/0x1c
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c844311c>]
> i2c_busy_rise_and_fall+0x90/0x194[dvb-ttpci]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c84433de>] i2c_write_out+0x56/0xe8
> [dvb-ttpci]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c8443d7f>] do_master_xfer+0x8f/0x13c
> [dvb-ttpci]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c8443e49>] master_xfer+0x1d/0x30
> [dvb-ttpci]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c898916a>] ves1893_readreg+0x72/0xa4
> [alps_bsrv2]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c89898cf>] bsrv2_ioctl+0x223/0x290
> [alps_bsrv2]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c8433a0c>]
> dvb_frontend_internal_ioctl+0x4c/0x70 [dvb-core]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c8433ca1>]
> dvb_frontend_add_event+0xc1/0x118[dvb-core]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c8436667>] .rodata+0xaa7/0x1000 [dvb-core]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c843424a>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x172/0x220
> [dvb-core]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [<c84340d8>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x0/0x220
> [dvb-core]
> Oct 13 18:10:21 apophis kernel: [kernel_thread+25/140]
> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc
>
> The cause for that is most likely the call to dvb_frontend_internal_ioctl()
> from dvb_frontend_add_event() with the event spinlock held. I guess this
> could be converted to a semaphore, but i have not tested that theory yet.
you are right, here we should use a semaphore. I'll apply this.
Holger
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