On 09/07/18 14:55, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 14:43:20 EEST Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> From: Hans Verkuil <hansv...@cisco.com>
>>
>> The v2 pad structure never exposed the pad index, which made it impossible
>> to call the MEDIA_IOC_SETUP_LINK ioctl, which needs that information.
>>
>> It is really trivial to just expose this information, so implement this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansv...@cisco.com>
>> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/media/media-device.c |  1 +
>>  include/uapi/linux/media.h   | 12 +++++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> index 47bb2254fbfd..047d38372a27 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> @@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ static long media_device_get_topology(struct
>> media_device *mdev, void *arg) kpad.id = pad->graph_obj.id;
>>              kpad.entity_id = pad->entity->graph_obj.id;
>>              kpad.flags = pad->flags;
>> +            kpad.index = pad->index;
>>
>>              if (copy_to_user(upad, &kpad, sizeof(kpad)))
>>                      ret = -EFAULT;
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media.h b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> index 86c7dcc9cba3..f6338bd57929 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> @@ -305,11 +305,21 @@ struct media_v2_interface {
>>      };
>>  } __attribute__ ((packed));
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Appeared in 4.19.0.
>> + *
>> + * The media_version argument comes from the media_version field in
>> + * struct media_device_info.
>> + */
>> +#define MEDIA_V2_PAD_HAS_INDEX(media_version) \
>> +    ((media_version) >= ((4 << 16) | (19 << 8) | 0))
> 
> I agree that we need tn index field, but I don't think we need to care about 
> backward compatibility. The lack of an index field makes it clear that the 
> API 
> has never been properly used, as it was impossible to do so.

We do need to care: there is no reason why a v4l2 application can't be used on
an older kernel. Most v4l2 applications copy the V4L2 headers to the application
(in fact, that's what v4l-utils does) and so they need to know if a field is
actually filled in by whatever kernel is used. In most cases they can just check
against 0, but that happens to be a valid index :-(

So this is really needed. Same for the flags field.

Regards,

        Hans

> 
>>  struct media_v2_pad {
>>      __u32 id;
>>      __u32 entity_id;
>>      __u32 flags;
>> -    __u32 reserved[5];
>> +    __u32 index;
>> +    __u32 reserved[4];
>>  } __attribute__ ((packed));
>>
>>  struct media_v2_link {
> 

Reply via email to