Re: [PATCH] media: fix truncated entity specification

From: Clemens Ladisch
Date: Tue Nov 15 2011 - 08:02:25 EST


Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Saturday 05 November 2011 22:42:01 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > When enumerating an entity, assign the entire entity specification
> > instead of only the first two words. (This requires giving the
> > specification union a name.)
>
> What about this (untested) simpler patch ?
>
> - u_ent.v4l.major = ent->v4l.major;
> - u_ent.v4l.minor = ent->v4l.minor;
> + memcpy(&u_ent.raw, &ent->raw, sizeof(u_ent.raw));

I would have written it this way if ent->raw actually existed.
(And please don't tell me you want to increase the size of
struct media_entity by 172 bytes. :)


Regards,
Clemens
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