Re: [PATCH v1 2/8] media: ov2740: Replace voodoo coding with understandle flow

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Fri Nov 11 2022 - 14:46:31 EST


On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 05:30:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 05:02:22PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:05:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Besides not being understandable at the first glance, the code
> > > might provoke a compiler or a static analyser tool to warn about
> > > out-of-bound access (when len == 0).
> >
> > I've never seen one.
> >
> > However the same pattern is repeatedly used by many, many drivers and
> > addressing just one doesn't make much sense.
> >
> > The proper way to fix this would be to have a set of common CCI (Camera
> > Control Interface) functions that all drivers could use, and then switch
> > the drivers to use them.
> >
> > This isn't currently a great fit for e.g. regmap but perhaps something
> > light on top of regmap-i2c could do the trick?
>
> So, then we can skip this one, right?

Yes.

>
> > The rest of the set seems good to me.
>
> Thank you for the review, can you apply them, or should I send a v2 with
> dropped first patch?

Already done. I'm still doing more testing before pushing.

Thanks!

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Sakari Ailus