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

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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?

thanks,

greg k-h
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