Re: Incorrect v4l patch in 2.6.15-rc4-git1

[Johannes Stezenbach]

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
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