[linux-dvb] af9005/mt2060 module unload failure

[Michael Krufky]

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> En/na Trent Piepho ha escrit:
>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>> En/na Michael Krufky ha escrit:
>>>>> Why dont you just use dvb_frontend_detach?
>>>>>
>>>> I retract that comment...
>>>>
>>>> The dvb-usb framework does this itself inside dvb-usb-dvb.c , inside
>>>> dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_exit
>>>>
>>>> ... You should not have to do the symbol_put inside af9005-fe.c
>>>>   If you remove that code, does it fix the issue?
>>> Well, I'm doing the attach myself to attach the tuner to the frontend
>>> the first time it is opened, so if I remove the code there will be at
>>> least one reference to the mt2060 (or qt1010, depending on the model) so
>>> it cannot be unloaded.
>> The tuner gets attached once when you call dvb_attach() from
>> af9005_fe_init.  It will get detached once when dvb_frontend_detach() is
>> called.  Everything balanced.
> 
> but dvb_frontent_detach doesnt' know anynthing about the tuner (since 
> it's in the frontend private data), so if I don't do the put_symbol 
> myself in af9005_fe_release (as I do the dvb_attach myself in 
> af9005_fe_init) there will be a dangling reference count, yes?
> 
> Bye

Luca,

You are incorrect -- dvb_frontend_detach has access to the entire "struct
dvb_frontend *fe" , and dvb-core will call fe->ops.tuner_ops.release function
itself and dvb_frontend_detach will handle the module detachment.

Regards,

Michael Krufky