From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751989AbdJKWOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:14:35 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f193.google.com ([209.85.192.193]:34354 "EHLO mail-pf0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbdJKWOb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:14:31 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QBxZge6djwU6yE/wGFrI0n53vO+etQnZEnhYb1EnbMlLjDxqdsS9fHaf7/eglzaF58erRzrLw== Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: staging/imx: do not return error in link_notify for unknown sources To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Philipp Zabel , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Longerbeam References: <1507057753-31808-1-git-send-email-steve_longerbeam@mentor.com> <20171011214906.GX20805@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> From: Steve Longerbeam Message-ID: <87b48a34-4beb-eb21-3361-28f6edb6d73c@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:14:26 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171011214906.GX20805@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/11/2017 02:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:09:13PM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote: >> imx_media_link_notify() should not return error if the source subdevice >> is not recognized by imx-media, that isn't an error. If the subdev has >> controls they will be inherited starting from a known subdev. > What does "a known subdev" mean? It refers to the previous sentence, "not recognized by imx-media". A subdev that was not registered via async registration and so not in imx-media's async subdev list. I could elaborate in the commit message but it seems fairly obvious to me. Steve