[RFC v3 13/21] media device: Deprecate media_device_{init,cleanup}() for drivers
From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2016-08-26 23:44:46
Subsystem:
media controller framework, media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb), the rest · Maintainers:
Sakari Ailus, Laurent Pinchart, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
Drivers should no longer directly allocate media_device but rely on media_device_alloc(), media_device_get() and media_device_put() instead. Deprecate media_device_init() and media_device_cleanup(). Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> --- include/media/media-device.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/media/media-device.h b/include/media/media-device.h
index d29dec7..a3d8dd4 100644
--- a/include/media/media-device.h
+++ b/include/media/media-device.h@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ static inline __must_check int media_entity_enum_init( * So drivers need to first initialize the media device, register any entity * within the media device, create pad to pad links and then finally register * the media device by calling media_device_register() as a final step. + * + * Note that using this function in drivers is DEPRECATED. New drivers + * must use media_device_alloc() and manage references using + * media_device_get() and media_device_put() instead. */ void media_device_init(struct media_device *mdev);
@@ -241,6 +245,10 @@ struct media_device *media_device_alloc(struct device *dev); * * This function that will destroy the graph_mutex that is * initialized in media_device_init(). + * + * Note that using this function in drivers is DEPRECATED. New drivers + * must use media_device_alloc() and manage references using + * media_device_get() and media_device_put() instead. */ void media_device_cleanup(struct media_device *mdev);
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