On Monday 30 October 2000 14:26, you wrote: > > As usual, this is just IMHO, but I think the idea of videodev.c was to > > be a pretty lightweight wrapper, with the driver doing all the real > > work. > > The multiopen locking in videodev.c was a mistake. I actually fixed the 2.4 > read/write locking on most of the radio devices so removing it shouldnt be > too tricky. Hi Alan, may I ask what would the benefit gained from this would be ? Does this mean that someone should go over all video drivers and put locks into them ? If this was to be done what good is videodev.c ? Regards Oliver
