Re: [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Remove unused active field

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 01:40:39PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 10:28:50AM +0000, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > The active field in struct uvc_streaming is not used anymore, drop it.
> 
> Easy one, I like that :-)
> 
> > Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20260629-uvc-racemeta-v2-0-10e91d2afba0@chromium.org/T/#m3078f0d5fd71435b5cfacaa5c99f23a446db581f
> > Fixes: c93d73c9c2cf ("media: uvcvideo: Use vb2 ioctl and fop helpers")

CI has flagged that this requires a Cc: stable. As I don't think there's
a need to backport this, I'll drop the Fixes tag.

> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 2 --
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h  | 1 -
> >  2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > index fc3536a4399f..0167f0f8e846 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > @@ -2229,8 +2229,6 @@ int uvc_video_init(struct uvc_streaming *stream)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	atomic_set(&stream->active, 0);
> > -
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Alternate setting 0 should be the default, yet the XBox Live Vision
> >  	 * Cam (and possibly other devices) crash or otherwise misbehave if
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > index b6bcee4a222f..021fd9af78b5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > @@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ struct uvc_streaming {
> >  	struct list_head list;
> >  	struct uvc_device *dev;
> >  	struct uvc_video_chain *chain;
> > -	atomic_t active;
> >  
> >  	struct usb_interface *intf;
> >  	int intfnum;
> > 
> > ---
> > base-commit: 253355887a1ab0ac8f33b356c7c1140eee554d18
> > change-id: 20260630-uvc-remove-active-8843181bcbb4

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart