The commit below from 2005 (sic) seems to be an example that workarounds often have quite a long lifetime.

Can we get this sorted out properly for 2.6.22?

TIA Adrian

commit c7ac6b42ffba28c350cbcd48268f46689f6eb1cc Author: Linus Torvalds torvalds@g5.osdl.org Date: Wed Dec 21 14:52:32 2005 -0800

Initialize drivers/media/video/saa7134 late

When compiled-in, make sure the sound system has initialized before these drivers do.

Reported by Adrian Bunk bunk@stusta.de

(The right fix would be to make the sound core use "subsys_initcall()" and thus initialize before all normal drivers, but this is the quick and limited safe fix for 2.6.15).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@osdl.org

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.c b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.c index 953d5fe..6752dd1 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.c @@ -1028,7 +1028,8 @@ static void saa7134_alsa_exit(void) return; }

-module_init(saa7134_alsa_init); +/* We initialize this late, to make sure the sound system is up and running */ +late_initcall(saa7134_alsa_init); module_exit(saa7134_alsa_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Ricardo Cerqueira"); diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-oss.c b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-oss.c index 513a699..c450d57 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-oss.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-oss.c @@ -1002,7 +1002,8 @@ static void saa7134_oss_exit(void) return; }

-module_init(saa7134_oss_init); +/* We initialize this late, to make sure the sound system is up and running */ +late_initcall(saa7134_oss_init); module_exit(saa7134_oss_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Gerd Knorr kraxel@bytesex.org [SuSE Labs]");