[linux-dvb] Re: Sporadic Oops when unloading/loading DVB driver

[Manfred Petz <pm@comlabs.at>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

| >
| > With excessively I mean an endless loop, running for about an hour,
| > permanently unloading/loading.
|
| Then just don't do that. Problem solved :-)
|
| For real, there are some unhandled error cases during
| *intialization* which could lead to problems at rmmod time.
| Needs to be cleaned up, but those bugs are so hard to hit in
| normal use that I rather spent my time working on other things.

Ok, but reloading the driver has been my "workaround" to my problem with
CAM and complete hangups of the driver. Since I got oopses sometimes, I did
a stress-test. :-/ Anyway, I'll do some additional research on this, and
try to figure out, where the problem is.

|
| If you have time you could do "obdump -dr av7110.o | less" and
| look at arm_thread() at the offset given in the Oops, and try
| to figure out what could have gone wrong there.

Let's see...

pm


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