Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932288AbVLDX7E (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:59:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932294AbVLDX7E (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:59:04 -0500 Received: from allen.werkleitz.de ([80.190.251.108]:65424 "EHLO allen.werkleitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932288AbVLDX7D (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:59:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:59:04 +0100 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: Jean Delvare Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML , LM Sensors , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Message-ID: <20051204235904.GB7478@linuxtv.org> Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Stezenbach , Jean Delvare , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML , LM Sensors , Andrew Morton , Greg KH References: <20051202192814.282fc10c.khali@linux-fr.org> <1133602035.6724.5.camel@localhost> <20051203124715.52f8d736.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051203124715.52f8d736.khali@linux-fr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 84.189.217.138 Subject: Re: Incorrect v4l patch in 2.6.15-rc4-git1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on allen.werkleitz.de) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 18 On Sat, Dec 03, 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > I'll go undefine these experimental IDs soon anyway, as the concept is > broken IMHO. If driver authors don't use the ID, they can set it to 0. > If they do use it, they better register it soon so as to avoid > collisions with other drivers which haven't been merged either. I believe no one actually uses I2C ids in drivers/media/. Is it documented somewhere that they should be set to 0 when unused? I believe most people set them to experimental ids because they fear getting conflicts and malfunctionings when they leave them at 0. Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/