[linux-dvb] Re: vdr / OSDSetPalette oops with 2.6.x

[Jon Burgess]

Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
Maybe fedora have included some other kernel patches that breaks the osd? Or
maybe the dvb drivers in kernel 2.6.5 is broken?
 

The "4G-4G" feature of the FC2 kernels will break any incorrect direct 
access to userspace data.
There is another example here 
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Mar/3228.html

The new "__user" attributes appearing in the 2.6.7-rc kernels are an 
attempt to be able to detect these using automated tools.
LWN has an article on this at http://lwn.net/Articles/87538/

   Jon