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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2009-01-15 06:09:05 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2009-03-30 12:42:23 -0300
commitf5360bdc5539ccd7644df7acf27e8c740ba8cf6e (patch)
treee564284e11b2b75d6b643e423062b7848ee3be86 /Documentation/video4linux
parent6ca187abb2fc1a52b2a8e0422f3ffce2e3bb7ad0 (diff)
V4L/DVB (10252): v4l2 doc: explain why v4l2_device_unregister_subdev() has to be called.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ Make sure to call v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) when the remove() callback
is called. This will unregister the sub-device from the bridge driver. It is
safe to call this even if the sub-device was never registered.
+You need to do this because when the bridge driver destroys the i2c adapter
+the remove() callbacks are called of the i2c devices on that adapter.
+After that the corresponding v4l2_subdev structures are invalid, so they
+have to be unregistered first. Calling v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd)
+from the remove() callback ensures that this is always done correctly.
+
The bridge driver also has some helper functions it can use: