Re: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/5] media: tegra: Add Tegra Video input driver for Tegra210

[Sowjanya Komatineni]

On 1/29/20 2:09 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 02:13:17PM -0800, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> > On 1/28/20 1:45 PM, Helen Koike wrote:
> [...]
> > > On 1/28/20 4:23 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> [...]
> > > > +const struct tegra_csi_fops csi2_fops = {
> > > > +     .hw_init = csi2_hw_init,
> > > > +     .csi_start_streaming = csi2_start_streaming,
> > > > +     .csi_err_status = csi2_error_status,
> > > > +};
> > > If I saw correctly, you don't have other instances of struct tegra_csi_fops with different functions.
> > > So why not exposing the functions directly instead of creating a global variable?
> > Currently driver supports Tegra210 only. Later we will add for Tegra186 and
> > Tegra184 support too where we will have separate csi fops.
> Perhaps this structure should be prefixed with a tegra210_ to make that
> more obvious?
Will fix prefix in v2
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(csi2_fops);
> Also, why do we need to export these? These will be built as linked into
> the Tegra VI driver, which is the only one that uses these, right? Would
> it not be enough to just make it global? Why the need to export?
>
> Thierry
Will fix in v2