The following 13 patches are a substantial rework of lirc_zilog
reference counting, object allocation and deallocation, and object
locking.
With these changes, devices can now disappear out from under lircd +
lirc_dev + lirc_zilog with no adverse effects. I tested this with irw +
lircd + lirc_dev + lirc_zilog + cx18 + HVR-1600. I could unload the
cx18 driver without any oops or application crashes. When I reloaded
the cx18 driver, irw started receiving RX button presses again, and
irsend worked without a problem (and I didn't even need to restart
lircd!).
The ref counting fixes aren't finished as lirc_zilog itself can still be
unloaded by the user when it shouldn't be, but a hot unplug of an
HD-PVR, PVR-USB2, or HVR-1950 isn't going to trigger that.
These changes are base off of Jarod Wilson's git repo
http://git.linuxtv.org/jarod/linux-2.6-ir.git for-2.6.38 (IIRC)
Regards,
Andy
The following changes since commit c369acfb63914f9f502baef032bacfd5a53a871f:
mceusb: really fix remaining keybounce issues (2011-01-26 10:56:29 -0500)
are available in the git repository at:
ssh://linuxtv.org/git/awalls/media_tree.git z8-wilson-38
Andy Walls (13):
lirc_zilog: Restore checks for existence of the IR_tx object
lirc_zilog: Remove broken, ineffective reference counting
lirc_zilog: Convert ir_device instance array to a linked list
lirc_zilog: Convert the instance open count to an atomic_t
lirc_zilog: Use kernel standard methods for marking device non-seekable
lirc_zilog: Don't acquire the rx->buf_lock in the poll() function
lirc_zilog: Remove unneeded rx->buf_lock
lirc_zilog: Always allocate a Rx lirc_buffer object
lirc_zilog: Move constants from ir_probe() into the lirc_driver template
lirc_zilog: Add ref counting of struct IR, IR_tx, and IR_rx
lirc_zilog: Add locking of the i2c_clients when in use
lirc_zilog: Fix somewhat confusing information messages in ir_probe()
lirc_zilog: Update TODO list based on work completed and revised plans
drivers/staging/lirc/TODO.lirc_zilog | 51 +--
drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_zilog.c | 802 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
2 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-)
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