The patch number 8444 was added via Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb master development tree.
Kernel patches in this development tree may be modified to be backward compatible with older kernels. Compatibility modifications will be removed before inclusion into the mainstream Kernel If anyone has any objections, please let us know by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> backport commit e282959ef3ebae0d72ac0b24242c376fa34da585 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed May 21 12:52:33 2008 -0700 device create: dvb: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away. kernel-sync: Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -r 08d83bd597d4 -r 439cdc0fc36a linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Thu Jul 24 12:35:53 2008 -0300 +++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Thu Jul 24 12:46:11 2008 -0300 @@ -242,9 +242,15 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 26) + clsdev = device_create_drvdata(dvb_class, adap->device, + MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id)), + NULL, "dvb%d.%s%d", adap->num, dnames[type], id); +#else clsdev = device_create(dvb_class, adap->device, MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id)), "dvb%d.%s%d", adap->num, dnames[type], id); +#endif if (IS_ERR(clsdev)) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create device dvb%d.%s%d (%ld)\n", __func__, adap->num, dnames[type], id, PTR_ERR(clsdev)); --- Patch is available at: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/439cdc0fc36a0852f66a34beb2d8d9676db9b896 _______________________________________________ linuxtv-commits mailing list linuxtv-commits@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxtv-commits