Re: [PATCH v16 00/22] media: i2c: add Maxim GMSL2/3 serializer and deserializer drivers

From: Sakari Ailus

Date: Sat Sep 12 2026 - 07:45:02 EST


Hi Dumitru, Dan, Ricardo,

On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 01:35:05PM +0300, Ceclan Dumitru wrote:
> > Can you check this
> > <URL:https://linux-media.pages.freedesktop.org/-/users/sailus/-/jobs/109521830/artifacts/junit/test-smatch.log.txt>
> > please? If there's a single patch that needs to be modified, I can squash a
> > patch into that, otherwise v17 it is.
> >
>
> These are the same warns reported by Niklas in V13. Dan fixed them in
> smatch in devel branch but fix is not in master. Testing with smatch on
> that branch yields no warnings.

Dan: any plans to merge these things to master some time soon? Or:

Ricardo: could we use devel branch of smatch for some time?

This driver has been waiting to be merged for quite some time so it'd be
nice to get it to 7.4

>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/ai_txjwLPHsSKsJI@stanley.mountain
> https://repo.or.cz/smatch.git/commit/d12183645a31b737d7fb39cbefa589e34615e8f7
>
> v17 is still needed to revert one breaking change introduced in v16 and
> fix more findings from Sashiko.

Ack.

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Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus