linux-kernel - [PATCH v12 7/8] media: v4l2-ctrl: Add new helper v4l2_ctrl_ptr

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Date:   Mon,  7 Oct 2019 17:06:35 +0200
From:   Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@...nel.org>
To:     Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@...ndi.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Subject: [PATCH v12 7/8] media: v4l2-ctrl: Add new helper v4l2_ctrl_ptr_create

This helper function simplifies the code by not needing a union
v4l2_ctrl_ptr and an assignment every time we need to use
a ctrl_ptr.

Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@...nel.org>
---
 include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h b/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
index 5331cf6c8517..d4e1b1902044 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ union v4l2_ctrl_ptr {
 	void *p;
 };
 
+/**
+ * v4l2_ctrl_ptr_create() - Helper function to return a v4l2_ctrl_ptr from a
+ * void pointer
+ * @ptr:	The void pointer
+ */
+static inline union v4l2_ctrl_ptr v4l2_ctrl_ptr_create(void *ptr)
+{
+	union v4l2_ctrl_ptr p = { .p = ptr };
+
+	return p;
+}
+
 /**
  * struct v4l2_ctrl_ops - The control operations that the driver has to provide.
  *
-- 
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