[linux-dvb] Re: driver reload in 2.6

["Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as>]

	Subject: [linux-dvb] driver reload in 2.6
	Date: sab, feb 07, 2004 at 02:10:42 +0300

Quoting Anton A. Korzh (anton@korzh.ru):

> now i use 2.6 kernel driver -- of i compile moduls inside kernel -- what
> should i do with such a error? ( i should say that 45days all was ok,
> and than such an error occured )
> 
> I understand that compiling driver into modules and reloading them may
> help. But if i dont want modules?

If you look at the source code of the driver, in
linux/drivers/media/common/saa7146-core.c (at least in the CVS version
that I use),  around line 380 you will find:

	/* we don't do a master reset here anymore, it screws up
	   some boards that don't have an i2c-eeprom for configuration
	   values */
/*
	saa7146_write(dev, MC1, MASK_31);
*/

With this line commented out, reloading the modules does not reset my
budget card anymore. I uncommented it, and the locks I experienced
(and about which I posted a message to the list on 5 December, that
received no answers) are resolved with module reloading.

Why the locks happen, I don't know.

Carlo

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