Bug#512362: runvdr crash handler does not handle the module dependency tree

[Tobias Grimm]

Thanks for reporting this!

Brendon Higgins wrote:

> The runvdr script attempts to reload the dvb modules in the event that vdr
> crashes. It does this by using lsmod to determine which modules directly
> depend on dvb_core
[...]
> Getting this to work right would require traversing the module dependency
> tree and running rmmod/modprobe for all of those modules.

I have this sitting on my TODO list for quite a while now, but couldn't
find a nice solution yet. The reloading of the DVB modules on a VDR crash
is a pretty old feature and was necessary in the past, to workaround the
buggy DVB drivers. The drivers should nowadays be much more stable - I'm
just not sure if this is still the case with the recent S2API development.

But IMHO, the driver reloading should be removed from the runvdr script
completely. If there are Problems with a DVB driver, it should be fixed at
the root.

Tobias

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