On Wednesday 17 March 2010 15:16:20 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>>> I'm trying to get latest Sakari's tree (gitorious.org/omap3camera)
> >>>> 'devel' branch running on my Zoom3 HW (which has an OMAP3630, and a
> >>>> Sony IMX046 8MP sensor).
> >>>> 
> >>>> I had first one NULL pointer dereference while the driver was
> >>>> registering devices and creating entities, which I resolved with
> >>>> the attached patch. (Is this patch acceptable, or maybe I am missing
> >>>> something...)
> >>> 
> >>> Either that, or make OMAP34XXCAM_VIDEODEVS dynamic (the value would be
> >>> passed through platform data). The code will be removed (hopefully
> >>> soon) anyway when the legacy video nodes will disappear.
> >> 
> >> Ok, so should I keep this patch only to myself until this code is
> >> removed?
> > 
> > I'll let Sakari answer that, but I think they can still go in in the
> > meantime.
> 
> Is there a need for the patch? The other possible device is just left
> unused, right?

Without the patch you get an oops because the driver dereferences NULL 
pointers.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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