Re: [PATCH] Avoid sysfs oops when an rc_dev's raw device is absent

2012-07-05 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 24-06-2012 22:44, Douglas Bagnall escreveu: > hi, > > I probably should have sent that in reply to > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/49740 > which is the problem it fixes. > > Some things which might be of interest: > > 1. I innocently followed the inst

Re: [PATCH] Avoid sysfs oops when an rc_dev's raw device is absent

2012-07-05 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 24-06-2012 21:00, Douglas Bagnall escreveu: > For some reason, when the lirc daemon learns that a usb remote control > has been unplugged, it wants to read the sysfs attributes of the > disappearing device. This is useful for uncovering transient > inconsistencies, but less so for keeping the sy

Re: [PATCH] Avoid sysfs oops when an rc_dev's raw device is absent

2012-06-24 Thread Douglas Bagnall
hi, I probably should have sent that in reply to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/49740 which is the problem it fixes. Some things which might be of interest: 1. I innocently followed the instructions on http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Maintaining

[PATCH] Avoid sysfs oops when an rc_dev's raw device is absent

2012-06-24 Thread Douglas Bagnall
For some reason, when the lirc daemon learns that a usb remote control has been unplugged, it wants to read the sysfs attributes of the disappearing device. This is useful for uncovering transient inconsistencies, but less so for keeping the system running when such inconsistencies exist. Under so