Hi, Marek!
Thanks for the patch.
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:14:29PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> The side effect of commit 1056e4388b045 ("v4l2-dev: Fix race condition on
> __video_register_device") is the increased number of index value assigned
> on video_device registration. Before that commit video_devices were
> numbered from 0, after it, the indexes starts from 1, because get_index()
> always count the device, which is being registered. Some device drivers
> rely on video_device index number for internal purposes, i.e. s5p-mfc
> driver stopped working after that patch. This patch restores the old method
> of numbering the video_device indexes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> In my opinion this patch should be applied also to stable v3.12 series.
I agree.
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sakari Ailus
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