Re: [PATCH] bttv driver II

From: Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 00:56:24 EST

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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> If not can you wake people sleeping in ioctl/read etc and have the read/ioctl
> loop also check the flag so the flow is
>
> read
> sleep
> error
> set flag
> wake
> flag set ?
> set_poll
> goto read loop

This (s/goto read loop/return -EIO/) is what happens if a application
captures frames, but I can't do it this way if just the screen overlay is
active because nobody sleeps in a ioctl then...

Gerd

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