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-rw-r--r--drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
index cbb74f748555..4037689a945a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
@@ -859,6 +859,9 @@ int __video_register_device(struct video_device *vdev,
/* the v4l2_dev pointer MUST be present */
if (WARN_ON(!vdev->v4l2_dev))
return -EINVAL;
+ /* the device_caps field MUST be set for all but subdevs */
+ if (WARN_ON(type != VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV && !vdev->device_caps))
+ return -EINVAL;
/* v4l2_fh support */
spin_lock_init(&vdev->fh_lock);
@@ -1089,7 +1092,7 @@ static void __exit videodev_exit(void)
subsys_initcall(videodev_init);
module_exit(videodev_exit)
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>, Bill Dirks, Justin Schoeman, Gerd Knorr");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Video4Linux2 core driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(VIDEO_MAJOR);