Dmitri wrote: >You do not initialize the camera in probe() - this is bad because of many >reasons. > Is this still true? I realize that all probe()s are called from the same khubd thread, but where is the harm in making other devices wait? Is a device's address assigned only after the previous device's probe() returns?
>Some devices, however, need to be accessed from within the >probe() code to find out the firmware version, capabilities etc. > There are a lot of other cases where a driver can spend a lot of time in probe() (eg.: a kmalloc that sleeps for a long time). Even with a very stripped-down probe(), won't problems start to appear with eg. 50 devices? -- Mark McClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
