On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:52:09 -0600 (CST)
Mike Isely <is...@isely.net> wrote:

> 
> Mauro:
> 
> Please pull from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mcisely/pvrusb2 for:
> 

About this changeset:

> - pvrusb2: Report device serial number in bus-info field

Previously the V4L bus-info capability reported USB address, a fairly
useless thing for anyone but a USB core maintainer (IMHO).  This
change replaces that information with the device's serial number if
possible, or otherwise a unit number.

Priority: normal

Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <is...@pobox.com>

--- a/linux/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c  Wed Jan 14 01:24:20 
2009 -0600
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c  Wed Jan 14 01:30:53 
2009 -0600
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static long pvr2_v4l2_do_ioctl(struct fi
                struct v4l2_capability *cap = arg;
 
                memcpy(cap, &pvr_capability, sizeof(struct v4l2_capability));
-               strlcpy(cap->bus_info,pvr2_hdw_get_bus_info(hdw),
+               strlcpy(cap->bus_info, pvr2_hdw_get_device_identifier(hdw),
                        sizeof(cap->bus_info));
                strlcpy(cap->card,pvr2_hdw_get_desc(hdw),sizeof(cap->card));
 
I can see some troubles here:

1) The bus info helps to identify the place where you'll find the device info 
at sysfs;

2) This is a V4L2 API non-compliance. All drivers should be compliant with the 
API;

3) If we all agree that bus_info doesn't matter at all and decide to change 
V4L2 API, we'll still have a big trouble: most devices don't have a serial 
number.

The other patches are ok.

Cheers,
Mauro
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