[vdr] Re: System-Freeze when switching to ARD

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Oliver Endriss may or may not have written...
> 
> > On Sonntag, 17. Oktober 2004 16:43, Tilo Renkl wrote:
> >> Oliver Endriss wrote: Maybe I should switch to kernel 2.6.x. Are your
> >> latest modifications in the last prepatch of the kernel ? I think it is
> >> 2.6.9rc4.
> 
> > I don't know when the driver shipped with the kernel has been updated. You
> > might want to check your driver sources whether this patch has been
> > included:
> > http://endriss.escape.bei.t-online.de/dvb/dvb_demux_spinlock_fix.diff
> 
> It's in 2.6.9-rc4-mm1, and can't be applied to plain -rc4 (the relevant
> spin_lock()s are missing).

Ok, so plain -rc4 contains an outdated driver where the locking code is
missing. People using this kernel should really update their drivers...

Oliver

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