Re: [PATCH] [media] v4l: rcar-fcp: Don't force users to check for disabled FCP support

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Hi Greg,

On Tuesday 18 Oct 2016 16:05:21 Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 04:24:20PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > commit fd44aa9a254b18176ec3792a18e7de6977030ca8 upstream.
> > 
> > The rcar_fcp_enable() function immediately returns successfully when the
> > FCP device pointer is NULL to avoid forcing the users to check the FCP
> > device manually before every call. However, the stub version of the
> > function used when the FCP driver is disabled returns -ENOSYS
> > unconditionally, resulting in a different API contract for the two
> > versions of the function.
> > 
> > As a user that requires FCP support will fail at probe time when calling
> > rcar_fcp_get() if the FCP driver is disabled, the stub version of the
> > rcar_fcp_enable() function will only be called with a NULL FCP device.
> > We can thus return 0 unconditionally to align the behaviour with the
> > normal version of the function.
> > 
> > Fixes: 94fcdf829793 ("[media] v4l: vsp1: Add FCP support")
> > Reported-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> >  include/media/rcar-fcp.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> What stable kernel(s) do you want this applied to?

That's for v4.8, sorry for not having mentioned it.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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