Bug in lxv4l2?

Andres Salomon dilinger at queued.net
Mon May 19 16:29:31 EDT 2008


On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:58:51 +0200
"Oliver Urbann" <ciVic at web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i am using an AMD Geode with a cam (with v4l driver). In some cases
> the kernel shows the following when i am reading from /dev/video0:
> 
[...]
> 
> I was wondering about the spin lock. The function v4l_capt_unstall()
> already locks io->lock, calls v4l_capt_unstall() and there again it
> tries to lock io->lock. I think this should end in a deadlock?
> 
> Oliver Urbann


Erm, where is this code from?  It doesn't appear to be in the
mainline kernel...



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