From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LM Sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Incorrect v4l patch in 2.6.15-rc4-git1
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:59:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051204235904.GB7478@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051203124715.52f8d736.khali@linux-fr.org>
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I'll go undefine these experimental IDs soon anyway, as the concept is
> broken IMHO. If driver authors don't use the ID, they can set it to 0.
> If they do use it, they better register it soon so as to avoid
> collisions with other drivers which haven't been merged either.
I believe no one actually uses I2C ids in drivers/media/.
Is it documented somewhere that they should be set to 0 when
unused? I believe most people set them to experimental ids
because they fear getting conflicts and malfunctionings when
they leave them at 0.
Johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-04 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 18:28 Jean Delvare
2005-12-03 9:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-12-03 11:47 ` Jean Delvare
2005-12-03 18:56 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-12-04 23:59 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
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