Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

["Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

On 5/24/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
>
> On 5/24/07, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, no objections on v4l list, try to merge it. Any further comments will
> > be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > --
> >
> > stk11xx, add a new webcam driver
[...]
> > +static int stk1125_camera_asleep(struct stk11xx *dev)
> > +{
> > +     int value;
> > +
> > +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0104, &value);
> > +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0105, &value);
> > +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0106, &value);
> > +
>
> why do you read these values (this is also something in the ongoing
> code I see, the read value just gets overwritten all the time)?

Well, as I tested, reads are neccesary, otherwise it doesn't work. And
when they are needed, you need to read the value to some place in
memory -- the &value.

thanks,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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