linux/drivers/media
Sakari Ailus 654be7dde7 media: v4l: i2c: Add a comment not to use static sub-device names in the future
A number of sub-device drivers used a static name for the sub-device, and
thus the media entity. As the entity name must be unique within a media
device, this makes it impossible to have more than one instance of each
device in a media device. This is a rather severe limitation.

Instead of fixing these drivers, add a comment to the drivers noting that
such static names may not be used in the future.

The alternative of fixing the drivers is troublesome as the entity (as
well as sub-device) name is part of the uAPI. Changing that is almost
certain to break something. As these devices are old but no-one has
encountered a problem with the static names, leave it as-is.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2018-10-03 11:55:44 -04:00
..
cec media: cec: remove cec-edid.c 2018-09-24 09:11:06 -04:00
common media: vb2: check for sane values from queue_setup 2018-09-24 09:28:41 -04:00
dvb-core media: dvb: use signal types to discover pads 2018-09-17 13:16:19 -04:00
dvb-frontends media: au8522: declare its own pads 2018-09-17 13:16:19 -04:00
firewire media: replace strcpy() by strscpy() 2018-09-11 13:32:17 -04:00
i2c media: v4l: i2c: Add a comment not to use static sub-device names in the future 2018-10-03 11:55:44 -04:00
mmc media: siano: use GFP_DMA only for smssdio 2018-05-15 08:04:42 -04:00
pci media: bt8xx: Remove unnecessary self-assignment 2018-09-24 09:41:47 -04:00
platform media: davinci: Fix implicit enum conversion warning 2018-09-24 09:43:13 -04:00
radio media: replace strcpy() by strscpy() 2018-09-11 13:32:17 -04:00
rc media: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy() 2018-09-11 13:32:17 -04:00
spi media: cxd2880-spi: Modified how to declare structure 2018-05-05 10:37:12 -04:00
tuners media: si2157: declare its own pads 2018-09-17 13:16:19 -04:00
usb media: au0828: Fix incorrect error messages 2018-09-24 09:32:15 -04:00
v4l2-core media: hdmi.h: rename ADOBE_RGB to OPRGB and ADOBE_YCC to OPYCC 2018-09-24 09:28:41 -04:00
Kconfig media: cec: Kconfig coding style issue 2018-05-09 16:26:50 -04:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
media-device.c media: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy() 2018-09-11 13:32:17 -04:00
media-devnode.c MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files 2018-05-04 06:21:06 -04:00
media-entity.c media: v4l2-mc: switch it to use the new approach to setup pipelines 2018-09-17 13:16:19 -04:00