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From: "Zhang, Ning A" <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>
To: "mchehab@kernel.org" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	"hverkuil@xs4all.nl" <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-media@vger.kernel.org" <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: question about v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:00:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1534226439.2854.37.camel@intel.com> (raw)

Hello, Hans, Mauro

I find in source code: v4l2-common.c: v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board(),
there is a comment:

	/* Note: by loading the module first we are certain that c-
>driver
	   will be set if the driver was found. If the module was not
loaded
	   first, then the i2c core tries to delay-load the module for
us,
	   and then c->driver is still NULL until the module is finally
	   loaded. This delay-load mechanism doesn't work if other
drivers
	   want to use the i2c device, so explicitly loading the module
	   is the best alternative. */

I find it added by commit: f0222c7d860f09a61bec5e500539f28db0184b38 

it was added at year 2009, is this still an issue in newer kernel, like
4.14?

BR.
Ning.

                 reply	other threads:[~2018-08-14  8:47 UTC|newest]

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