Re: Current saa7134 driver breaks KNC One Tv-Station DVR (card=24)

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 06:36:56 EST


On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 03:08 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> I've reported this before:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/17/275
>
> The patch that Rusty posted doesn't seem to have it made into
> module-init-tools-3.1. Bummer :-(

Because it was a dumb idea, as your reply showed. You can't load any
dependent modules because this module is not initialized yet (what if
you loaded a module that depended on you, then failed your
initialization?). Gerd has the real fix, IIRC.

Rusty.

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman

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