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

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Reported-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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