Hello Mauro, On 12/15/2015 08:13 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: [snip] >>> >>> /** >>> - * media_device_register - register a media device >>> + * media_device_init() - initialize a media device >>> * @mdev: The media device >>> * >>> * The caller is responsible for initializing the media device before >>> @@ -534,12 +534,11 @@ static void media_device_release(struct media_devnode *mdev) >>> * >>> * - dev must point to the parent device >>> * - model must be filled with the device model name >>> + * >>> + * returns zero on success or a negative error code. >>> */ >>> -int __must_check __media_device_register(struct media_device *mdev, >>> - struct module *owner) >>> +int __must_check media_device_init(struct media_device *mdev) >> >> I think I suggested making media_device_init() return void as the only >> remaining source of errors would be driver bugs. >> >> I'd simply replace the WARN_ON() below with BUG(). > > That sounds like bad idea to me, and it is against the current > Kernel policy of using BUG() only when there's no other way, e. g. on > event so severe that the Kernel has no other thing to do except to > stop running. > I agree with you, that was exactly my point and what I told Sakari [0] but he had a strong opinion about it and I didn't mind too much so I decided at the end to just change it to a BUG_ON() so I could get his ack for this set. > For sure, this is not the case here. Also, all drivers have already > a logic that checks if the device init happened. So, they should already > be doing the right thing. > > Regards, > Mauro [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/10/483 Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html