Bug in lxv4l2?

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Mon May 19 16:39:32 EDT 2008


On 19/05/08 16:29 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 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...

Its not - this is the last of the LX drivers that needs to be ported
to mainline.  

Jordan




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