I looked over at a few other drivers.

Both gspca and sn9c1xx have fewer module paramters, none of the
related to image settings. I think we can remove the debugging
messages in the init. And maybe remove most of these parameters, too.
The only ones providing real functionality are jpeg, bulk, bandwidth
and max/min_buffers. Maybe we should cut it down to them and show
error messages when we actually act use their values for something.

GWater

PS: sn9c1xx seems to have its own debugging facility. but the code
looks strange anyway.

On 10 Jun., 02:34, Brian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daniel,
> I've changed most of the UDIA_* to dev_* however currently there are
> some messages being printed from the drivers init and exit functions
> which do not have the dev structure available. Should i replace those
> with just a printk or remove them completely?
>
> Also the kernel doesn't have a usleep function as far as i can tell.
>
> 2009/6/9 Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]>:
>
> > Em Seg, 2009-06-08 às 01:19 -0700, GWater escreveu:
> >> The device structure is not available in many functions in sn9c20x-
> >> queue.c. Then there are the init functions in sn9c20x-ub.c and several
> >> functions in sn9c20x-sysfs.c (the problem can be fixed by getting the
> >> device from the *priv thingy. However I don't think this is really
> >> worth the effort and I think there will be performance loss.
>
> > There is no performance loss on dereferencing a pointer. A printk costs
> > more than 1000 (just guessing) pointer dereferences.
>
> > All sysfs functions take a struct device * as the first argument. Only
> > thing wrong in there is that you are naming it "class". But what is the
> > point here? There is no UDIA_* on -sysfs.c
>
> > On -usb.c just use udev->dev.
>
> > On -queue.c i see that you have a single sn9c20x_video_queue for each
> > each struct usb_sn9c20x. You should consider not using a struct
> > sn9c20x_video_queue at all, and just merge your child fields on the
> > parent struct. If its not an option for you, then you can get your
> > struct usb_sn9c20x using the container_of macro. eg:
>
> > struct usb_sn9c20x *dev = container_of(queue, struct usb_sn9c20x, queue)
>
> >> On 8 Jun., 08:15, Brian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The other issue is of course that our current macros
> >> besides just printing the message will check the log level allowing
> >> the driver to dynamically adjust which messages get displayed.
>
> > You shouldn't invent your own log level facility, the kernel already has
> > one and filtering is done by standard sys(k)logd.
> > Use dev_[info|warn|err|dbg]. dev_dbg needs #define DEBUG to actually be
> > on the code.
>
> > Some other minor nitpicks....
>
> > Dont:   },
> >        {
> > use }, { instead.
>
> > Regarding comments format, dont:
>
> > 300         /*some hardcoded values are present
> > 301          *like those for maximal/minimal exposure
> > 302          *and exposure steps*/
>
> > /* single line (dont forget the spaces after start and before end) */
>
> > /*
> >  * Multi-line comment
> >  * line 2
> >  * line 3
> >  */
>
> > 577         if (ret < 0)
> > 578                 return ret;
> > 579         else
> > 580                 return 0;
>
> > No need for "else" after "return".
>
> > 613                         udelay(delay);
>
> > Urgh! Do you really want to block all the kernel while you wait for
> > USB/I2C I/O? This is a MEGA performance killer. Use usleep() instead.
>
> > --
> > Daniel Ribeiro
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