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Hi Mauro,

On 04/26/2018 06:42 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

>>
>> I noticed you changed the status of this series from rejected to new.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Also, there are other similar issues in media/pci/
> 
> Well, the issues will be there everywhere on all media drivers.
> 
> I marked your patches because I need to study it carefully, after
> Peter's explanations. My plan is to do it next week. Still not
> sure if the approach you took is the best one or not.
> 
> As I said, one possibility is to change the way v4l2-core handles
> VIDIOC_ENUM_foo ioctls, but that would be make harder to -stable
> backports.
> 
> I need a weekend to sleep on it.
> 

I'm curious about how you finally resolved to handle these issues.

I noticed Smatch is no longer reporting them.

Thanks
--
Gustavo