Re: [PATCH] media: staging/imx: do not return error in link_notify for unknown sources

[Steve Longerbeam]

On 10/11/2017 02:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:09:13PM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > imx_media_link_notify() should not return error if the source subdevice
> > is not recognized by imx-media, that isn't an error. If the subdev has
> > controls they will be inherited starting from a known subdev.
> What does "a known subdev" mean?

It refers to the previous sentence, "not recognized by imx-media". A
subdev that was not registered via async registration and so not in
imx-media's async subdev list. I could elaborate in the commit message
but it seems fairly obvious to me.

Steve