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Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb

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On Monday 22 December 2008 18:35:50 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb for the
> following:
>
> - v4l2-dev: use the release callback from device instead of cdev
>
> It's a substantial change at the core of v4l but it's been reviewed
> several times now, I've been testing it rather thoroughly (including
> under the 2.6.18 kernel) and I am very happy with it. All known race
> conditions were fixed without requiring driver changes and since we no
> longer (ab)use cdev this should make Greg KH a lot happier as well.

I added two small patches:

- v4l2-dev: allow drivers to pass v4l2_device as parent
- ivtv: set v4l2_dev instead of parent.

It's a good idea to do this early on. This will be very useful later on.

Regards,

	Hans

>
> Thanks,
>
>         Hans
>
> diffstat:
>  linux/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c |  417
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  linux/include/media/v4l2-dev.h       |   51 ++--
>  v4l/compat.h                         |    1
>  3 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)



-- 
Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG

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