Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] PWC 8.6

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Ronald Bultje wrote:
>  On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 05:59, Mark McClelland wrote:
> > It doesn't. The function pointers in struct video_device that were 
> > removed in the 2.5 patch are retained in the 2.4 patch. Current 2.4 
> > drivers should work without modification.
>  
>  They don't. One of the patches removes the 'busy' field in the struct
>  videodevice, which makes it non-backward-compatible.

The quick+dirty fix is at two-liner patch.  Tampering with busy to hack
around the videodev.o "one-open-only" limit also shouldn't have happened
in the first place, and if you switch over to the fops-based device
registrations you don't need such dirty tricks any more ...

  Gerd

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