[alsa-devel] [PATCH] media: fix truncated entity specification

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Clemens,

On Tuesday 15 November 2011 14:02:21 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 November 2011 22:42:01 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > When enumerating an entity, assign the entire entity specification
> > > instead of only the first two words.  (This requires giving the
> > > specification union a name.)
> > 
> > What about this (untested) simpler patch ?
> > 
> > -	u_ent.v4l.major = ent->v4l.major;
> > -	u_ent.v4l.minor = ent->v4l.minor;
> > +	memcpy(&u_ent.raw, &ent->raw, sizeof(u_ent.raw));
> 
> I would have written it this way if ent->raw actually existed.
> (And please don't tell me you want to increase the size of
> struct media_entity by 172 bytes.  :)

Oops, my bad :-)

Your patch looks good then, except that I would memcpy to u_ent.raw instead of 
u_ent.v4l. Would you also be ok with shortening specification to spec (or 
info) ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart