Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

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On 5/24/07, Markus Rechberger <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jiri,

On 5/24/07, Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, no objections on v4l list, try to merge it. Any further comments will
> be
> appreciated.
>
> --
>
> stk11xx, add a new webcam driver
[...]
> +static int stk1125_camera_asleep(struct stk11xx *dev)
> +{
> +     int value;
> +
> +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0104, &value);
> +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0105, &value);
> +     stk11xx_read_registry(dev, 0x0106, &value);
> +

why do you read these values (this is also something in the ongoing
code I see, the read value just gets overwritten all the time)?

Well, as I tested, reads are neccesary, otherwise it doesn't work. And
when they are needed, you need to read the value to some place in
memory -- the &value.

thanks,
--
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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