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Diffstat (limited to 'include/media/v4l2-dev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/media/v4l2-dev.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h index e472b5d07a5..30855077be4 100644 --- a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h +++ b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h @@ -91,7 +91,12 @@ void video_unregister_device(struct video_device *); /* helper functions to alloc / release struct video_device, the later can be used for video_device->release() */ struct video_device *video_device_alloc(void); +/* this release function frees the vfd pointer */ void video_device_release(struct video_device *vfd); +/* this release function does nothing, use when the video_device is a + static global struct. Note that having a static video_device is + a dubious construction at best. */ +void video_device_release_empty(struct video_device *vfd); #ifdef OBSOLETE_DEVDATA /* to be removed soon */ /* helper functions to access driver private data. */ |