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From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Subject: Re: Any reason why media_entity_pads_init() isn't void?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:36:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160314103643.GP11084@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E6758F.7020205@xs4all.nl>

Hi Hans,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:25:51AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> I was fixing a sparse warning in media_entity_pads_init() and I noticed
> that that function always returns 0. Any reason why this can't be changed
> to a void function?

I was thinking of the same function but I had a different question: why
would one call this *after* entity->graph_obj.mdev is set? It is set by
media_device_register_entity(), but once mdev it's set, you're not expected
to call pads_init anymore...

I'm fine making this return void.

> 
> That return value is checked a zillion times in the media code. By making
> it void it should simplify code all over.
> 
> See e.g. uvc_mc_init_entity in drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c: that
> whole function can become a void function itself.

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@iki.fi	XMPP: sailus@retiisi.org.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14  8:25 Any reason why media_entity_pads_init() isn't void? Hans Verkuil
2016-03-14 10:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-14 10:36 ` Sakari Ailus [this message]
2016-03-14 11:27   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-14 11:43     ` Sakari Ailus
2016-03-14 11:52       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-14 13:05         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-14 18:16           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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