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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-01-18 22:28:51 -0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-01-18 22:28:51 -0200 |
| commit | 5ab66038c4316acb1ed807b40a3a035dd481f4fa (patch) | |
| tree | f7d62fc365ac76bb05d060a17872fece40625ef7 /linux/Documentation | |
| parent | b3bd2b4c24de403f1baa56ec2ec452e7f8f9b463 (diff) | |
| parent | 21ddc1581a225df18d39e8742ced6d3d2bd89003 (diff) | |
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merge: http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-cx25840
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Priority: normal
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index ff124374e..cc3506242 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ Make sure to call v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) when the remove() callback is called. This will unregister the sub-device from the bridge driver. It is safe to call this even if the sub-device was never registered. +You need to do this because when the bridge driver destroys the i2c adapter +the remove() callbacks are called of the i2c devices on that adapter. +After that the corresponding v4l2_subdev structures are invalid, so they +have to be unregistered first. Calling v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) +from the remove() callback ensures that this is always done correctly. + The bridge driver also has some helper functions it can use: |