Re: [PATCH v5] media: Driver for Toshiba et8ek8 5MP sensor

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> On Wednesday 14 December 2016 13:24:51 Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  
> > Add driver for et8ek8 sensor, found in Nokia N900 main camera. Can be
> > used for taking photos in 2.5MP resolution with fcam-dev.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > From v4 I did cleanups to coding style and removed various oddities.
> > 
> > Exposure value is now in native units, which simplifies the code.
> > 
> > The patch to add device tree bindings was already acked by device tree
> > people.

> > +	default:
> > +		WARN_ONCE(1, ET8EK8_NAME ": %s: invalid message length.\n",
> > +			  __func__);
> 
> dev_warn_once()
...
> > +	if (WARN_ONCE(cnt > ET8EK8_MAX_MSG,
> > +		      ET8EK8_NAME ": %s: too many messages.\n", __func__)) {
> 
> Maybe replace it with dev_warn_once() too? That condition in WARN_ONCE
> does not look nice...
...
> > +			if (WARN(next->type != ET8EK8_REG_8BIT &&
> > +				 next->type != ET8EK8_REG_16BIT,
> > +				 "Invalid type = %d", next->type)) {
> dev_warn()
>
> > +	WARN_ON(sensor->power_count < 0);
> 
> Rather some dev_warn()? Do we need stack trace here?

I don't see what is wrong with WARN(). These are not expected to
trigger, if they do we'll fix it. If you feel strongly about this,
feel free to suggest a patch.

> > +static int et8ek8_i2c_reglist_find_write(struct i2c_client *client,
> > +					 struct et8ek8_meta_reglist *meta,
> > +					 u16 type)
> > +{
> > +	struct et8ek8_reglist *reglist;
> > +
> > +	reglist = et8ek8_reglist_find_type(meta, type);
> > +	if (!reglist)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	return et8ek8_i2c_write_regs(client, reglist->regs);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct et8ek8_reglist **et8ek8_reglist_first(
> > +		struct et8ek8_meta_reglist *meta)
> > +{
> > +	return &meta->reglist[0].ptr;
> > +}
> 
> Above code looks like re-implementation of linked-list. Does not kernel
> already provide some?

Its actually array of pointers as far as I can tell. I don't think any
helpers would be useful here.

> > +	new = et8ek8_gain_table[gain];
> > +
> > +	/* FIXME: optimise I2C writes! */
> 
> Is this FIMXE still valid?

Probably. Lets optimize it after merge.

> > +	if (sensor->power_count) {
> > +		WARN_ON(1);
> 
> Such warning is probably not useful...

It should not happen, AFAICT. That's why I'd like to know if it does.

> > +#include "et8ek8_reg.h"
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Stingray sensor mode settings for Scooby
> > + */
> 
> Are settings for this sensor Stingray enough?

Seems to work well enough for me. If more modes are needed, we can add
them later.

> It was me who copied these sensors settings to kernel driver. And I
> chose only Stingray as this is what was needed for my N900 for
> testing... Btw, you could add somewhere my and Ivo's Signed-off and
> copyright state as we both modified et8ek8.c code...

Normally, people add copyrights when they modify the code. If you want
to do it now, please send me a patch. (With those warn_ons too, if you
care, but I think the code is fine as is).

I got code from Dmitry, so it has his signed-off.

Thanks,
									Pavel
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