Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] media: i2c: ov5645: Return zero for s_stream(0)

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Sat Oct 15 2022 - 02:25:55 EST


Hi Prabhakar,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 07:34:58PM +0100, Prabhakar wrote:
> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Always return zero while stopping the stream as the caller will ignore the
> return value.
>
> This patch drops checking the return value of ov5645_write_reg() and
> continues further in the code path while stopping stream. The user anyway
> gets an error message in case ov5645_write_reg() fails.

Continuing all the way to pm_runtime_put() is fine, but I don't think
the function should return 0. It's not up to the driver to decide if a
failure would be useful to signal to the caller or not.

> Suggested-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1->v2
> * New patch
> ---
> drivers/media/i2c/ov5645.c | 11 ++++-------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5645.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5645.c
> index a0b9d0c43b78..b3825294aaf1 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5645.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5645.c
> @@ -995,14 +995,11 @@ static int ov5645_s_stream(struct v4l2_subdev *subdev, int enable)
> if (ret < 0)
> goto err_rpm_put;
> } else {
> - ret = ov5645_write_reg(ov5645, OV5645_IO_MIPI_CTRL00, 0x40);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> + ov5645_write_reg(ov5645, OV5645_IO_MIPI_CTRL00, 0x40);
> +
> + ov5645_write_reg(ov5645, OV5645_SYSTEM_CTRL0,
> + OV5645_SYSTEM_CTRL0_STOP);
>
> - ret = ov5645_write_reg(ov5645, OV5645_SYSTEM_CTRL0,
> - OV5645_SYSTEM_CTRL0_STOP);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> pm_runtime_put(ov5645->dev);
> }
>

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart