Re: [Patch 07/13] media: am437x-vpfe: Use a per instance format array instead of a static one

From: Benoit Parrot
Date: Tue Sep 17 2019 - 12:17:08 EST


Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri [2019-Sep-13 15:07:29 +0200]:
> On 9/9/19 6:27 PM, Benoit Parrot wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * This value needs to be at least as large as the number of entry in
> > + * formats[].
> > + * When formats[] is modified make sure to adjust this value also.
> > + */
> > +#define VPFE_MAX_ACTIVE_FMT 10
>
> I recommend adding something like:
>
> #if ARRAY_SIZE(formats) > VPFE_MAX_ACTIVE_FMT
> #error must update VPFE_MAX_ACTIVE_FMT
> #endif
>
> to am437x-vpfe.c.
>
> Or something along those lines. Don't rely on just the comment :-)

I remeber doing this a while back for another driver.
Not sure if you ever treid this or not but "#if ARRAY_SIZE()" construct
does not work because the ARRAY_SIZE() macro which needs to evaluate
sizeof() generates the following compiler error:

In file included from ../include/linux/delay.h:22,
from ../drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c:23:
../include/linux/kernel.h:47:26: warning: "sizeof" is not defined,
evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) +
__must_be_array(arr))

So no luck there. But I remembered also how I previously fixed it.
In this case if instead of leaving the formats[] definition with empty
brackets you actually used the same defined value like
formats[VPFE_MAX_ACTIVE_FMT] then if you inadvertantly add more enties in
the table then the value of VPFE_MAX_ACTIVE_FMT then you'll get series of
compile time warnings like this:

drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c:108:5: warning: excess elements
in array initializer
}, {
^
drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c:108:5: note: (near initialization
for âformatsâ)
drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c:115:5: warning: excess elements
in array initializer
}, {

etc...

So this is how I will address this.

Benoit

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>