On 11/07/14 12:43, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
> Thank you for the update.
>
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:56:59AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> Rename mediabus formats and move the enum into a separate header file so
>> that it can be used by DRM/KMS subsystem without any reference to the V4L2
>> subsystem.
>>
>> Old v4l2_mbus_pixelcode now points to media_bus_format.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
>> include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/uapi/linux/v4l2-mediabus.h | 114 +----------------------------
>> 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
>> index b70237e..b2c23f8 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
>> @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ header-y += veth.h
>> header-y += vfio.h
>> header-y += vhost.h
>> header-y += videodev2.h
>> +header-y += media-bus-format.h
>
> Could you arrange this to the list alphabetically, please?
>
>> header-y += virtio_9p.h
>> header-y += virtio_balloon.h
>> header-y += virtio_blk.h
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h b/include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..251a902
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Media Bus API header
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#ifndef __LINUX_MEDIA_BUS_FORMAT_H
>> +#define __LINUX_MEDIA_BUS_FORMAT_H
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * These bus formats uniquely identify data formats on the data bus. Format 0
>> + * is reserved, MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED shall be used by host-client pairs, where
>> + * the data format is fixed. Additionally, "2X8" means that one pixel is
>> + * transferred in two 8-bit samples, "BE" or "LE" specify in which order those
>> + * samples are transferred over the bus: "LE" means that the least significant
>> + * bits are transferred first, "BE" means that the most significant bits are
>> + * transferred first, and "PADHI" and "PADLO" define which bits - low or high,
>> + * in the incomplete high byte, are filled with padding bits.
>> + *
>> + * The bus formats are grouped by type, bus_width, bits per component, samples
>> + * per pixel and order of subsamples. Numerical values are sorted using generic
>> + * numerical sort order (8 thus comes before 10).
>> + *
>> + * As their value can't change when a new bus format is inserted in the
>> + * enumeration, the bus formats are explicitly given a numerical value. The next
>> + * free values for each category are listed below, update them when inserting
>> + * new pixel codes.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#define MEDIA_BUS_FMT_ENTRY(name, val) \
>> + MEDIA_BUS_FMT_ ## name = val, \
>> + V4L2_MBUS_FMT_ ## name = val
>> +
>> +enum media_bus_format {
>
> There's no really a need to keep the definitions inside the enum. It looks a
> little bit confusing to me. That made me realise something I missed
> yesterday.
>
> There's a difference: the enum in C++ is a different thing than in C, and
> the enum type isn't able to contain any other values than those defined in
> the enumeration.
>
> So what I propose is the following. Keep enum v4l2_mbus_pixelcode around,
> including the enum values. Define new values for MEDIA_BUS_* equivalents
> using preprocessor macros, as you've done below. Drop the definition of enum
> media_bus_format, and use u32 (or uint32_t) type for the variables.
>
> This way the enum stays intact for existing C++ applications, and new
> applications will have to use a 32-bit type.
>
> I'd like to get an ok from Hans to this as well.
OK, let's do this. Let's keep enum v4l2_mbus_pixelcode but only under #ifndef
__KERNEL and with a comment that this enum is deprecated and frozen and that
the values from the new header should be used.
And make the new MEDIA_BUS_FMT_ values defines instead of an enum.
Regards,
Hans
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