[ivtv-users] Fix memory corruption during IR initialization for various tuner cards

[Andy Walls]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 20:06 -0400, SoxSlayer wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:09:47 -0400
> Andy Walls <awalls at radix.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 10:05 -0700, Brian Rogers wrote:
> > > Mauro,
> > > 
> > > The attached git-formatted patch fixes a regression I just found
> > > that was introduced in 2.6.31-rc1. I hope it can make it into the
> > > release.
> > > 
> > > Brian
> > 
> > Brian,
> > 
> > Thanks for solving my cx18 problem for me. :)
> > 
> > Dustin,
> > 
> > Could you please try this patch for the IR receiver on the HVR-1600
> > with ir-kbd-i2c?
> > 
> > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/v4l-dvb/rev/30f721b428b9
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Andy
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Andy,

Dustin,

> Thanks that seems to have fixed it.

Good.


>   I did have to make some syntax
> changes to the x8f0811_ir_init_data declaration in order for it to
> compile on my system.  I suspect it has to do with the syntax of the gcc
> extension to initialize structs but I haven't researched it any.  My gcc
> version is 4.3.2-r3. If you want I can upload a patch.
> 

No.  I turns out, I'm careless.  The semicolons in a struct
initialization are wrong; they should be commas.  Try the latest here:

http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/v4l-dvb

If your patch has more changes, then yes please send it.

I haven't found time to upgrade either of my two systems to 2.26.30
because they are heavily used.  I'm making patches for this without
compiling.

Regards,
Andy