Re: Samsung i2c subdev drivers that set sd->name

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>]

Hi Sylwester and Laurent,

Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
...
>> We need an ioctl to report additional information about media entities
>> (it's
>> been on my to-do list for wayyyyyyyyy too long). It could be used to
>> report
>> bus information as well.
>
> Yes, that sounds much more interesting than using just subdev name to
> sqeeze
> all the information in. Why we don't have such an ioctl yet anyway ? Were
> there some arguments against it, or its been just a low priority issue ?

I think it's just been left unaddressed until now since there have been 
even more important things to work on. :-) I'm all for that, btw.; 
associating bus information to the media device instead of entities was 
always a little odd (feel free to blame me, too...).

Perhaps we could steal some bytes from the union in struct 
media_entity_desc? :-)

-- 
Cheers,

Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@iki.fi