[pvrusb2] Fedora 14 pvrusb2 kernel beware

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Ken Bass wrote:

> I am not certain of what is causing this, but...
> 
> Last night I upgraded my Fedora 14 kernel package from
> (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64) to (2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64)
> and all my pvrusb2 (HVR-1950) recordings failed on MythTV. I rebooted to
> the earlier kernel and it is working again.
> 
> Did the driver change in the kernel and did something get broken?

Ken:

The pvrusb2 driver has been unchanged between those versions.  However 
the driver does rely on a lot of other parts & pieces within v4l-dvb and 
I can't speak to what might have changed there.  Given the relatively 
minor jump you took, it should be easy to isolate.

But you'll need to be more specific in what failed.  For all we know 
there could be some aspect of MythTV which is sensitive to some other 
change in the kernel.  There's no way I can chase a problem like that 
from just the one symptom that all recordings failed.  I also can't 
support what various distros might be doing or not doing to maintain 
their kernel releases.

Best advice is to follow Jarod's advice on mythtv-users: File a bug in 
Red Hat's bugzilla and see what they can do for you.

  -Mike

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