Both revision and group_id fields were never used and were always
initialized to zero. Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml | 13 ++-----------
Documentation/media-framework.txt | 12 +++++-------
drivers/media/media-device.c | 4 ++--
include/media/media-entity.h | 4 ----
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
index 27f8817e7abe..9f7614a01234 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
@@ -59,15 +59,6 @@
<para>Entity IDs can be non-contiguous. Applications must
<emphasis>not</emphasis> try to enumerate entities by calling
MEDIA_IOC_ENUM_ENTITIES with increasing id's until they get an error.</para>
- <para>Two or more entities that share a common non-zero
- <structfield>group_id</structfield> value are considered as logically
- grouped. Groups are used to report
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>ALSA, VBI and video nodes that carry the same media
- stream</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lens and flash controllers associated with a sensor</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="media-entity-desc">
<title>struct <structname>media_entity_desc</structname></title>
@@ -106,7 +97,7 @@
<entry><structfield>revision</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry></entry>
- <entry>Entity revision in a driver/hardware specific format.</entry>
+ <entry>Entity revision. Always zero (obsolete)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
@@ -120,7 +111,7 @@
<entry><structfield>group_id</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry></entry>
- <entry>Entity group ID</entry>
+ <entry>Entity group ID. Always zero (obsolete)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u16</entry>
diff --git a/Documentation/media-framework.txt b/Documentation/media-framework.txt
index 7fbfe4bd1f47..ef3663af1db3 100644
--- a/Documentation/media-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/media-framework.txt
@@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ If no pads are needed, drivers could directly fill entity->num_pads
with 0 and entity->pads with NULL or to call the above function that
will do the same.
-The media_entity name, type, flags, revision and group_id fields should be
-initialized before calling media_device_register_entity(). Entities embedded
-in higher-level standard structures can have some of those fields set by the
-higher-level framework.
+The media_entity name, type and flags fields should be initialized before
+calling media_device_register_entity(). Entities embedded in higher-level
+standard structures can have some of those fields set by the higher-level
+framework.
As the number of pads is known in advance, the pads array is not allocated
dynamically but is managed by the entity driver. Most drivers will embed the
@@ -164,9 +164,7 @@ Entities have flags that describe the entity capabilities and state.
Logical entity groups can be defined by setting the group ID of all member
entities to the same non-zero value. An entity group serves no purpose in the
-kernel, but is reported to userspace during entities enumeration. The group_id
-field belongs to the media device driver and must not by touched by entity
-drivers.
+kernel, but is reported to userspace during entities enumeration.
Media device drivers should define groups if several entities are logically
bound together. Example usages include reporting
diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c
index b8cd7733a31c..537160bb461e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/media-device.c
+++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ static long media_device_enum_entities(struct media_device *mdev,
if (ent->name)
strlcpy(u_ent.name, ent->name, sizeof(u_ent.name));
u_ent.type = ent->function;
- u_ent.revision = ent->revision;
+ u_ent.revision = 0; /* Unused */
u_ent.flags = ent->flags;
- u_ent.group_id = ent->group_id;
+ u_ent.group_id = 0; /* Unused */
u_ent.pads = ent->num_pads;
u_ent.links = ent->num_links - ent->num_backlinks;
memcpy(&u_ent.raw, &ent->info, sizeof(ent->info));
diff --git a/include/media/media-entity.h b/include/media/media-entity.h
index 32fef503d950..031536723d8c 100644
--- a/include/media/media-entity.h
+++ b/include/media/media-entity.h
@@ -153,9 +153,7 @@ struct media_entity_operations {
* @name: Entity name.
* @function: Entity main function, as defined in uapi/media.h
* (MEDIA_ENT_F_*)
- * @revision: Entity revision - OBSOLETE - should be removed soon.
* @flags: Entity flags, as defined in uapi/media.h (MEDIA_ENT_FL_*)
- * @group_id: Entity group ID - OBSOLETE - should be removed soon.
* @num_pads: Number of sink and source pads.
* @num_links: Total number of links, forward and back, enabled and disabled.
* @num_backlinks: Number of backlinks
@@ -180,9 +178,7 @@ struct media_entity {
struct media_gobj graph_obj; /* must be first field in struct */
const char *name;
u32 function;
- u32 revision;
unsigned long flags;
- u32 group_id;
u16 num_pads;
u16 num_links;
--
2.5.0
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