On 11/08/17 02:16, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > In the past, only string controls were pointers. That changed when compounded > types got added, but the compat32 code was not updated. > > We could just add those controls there, but maintaining it is flaw, as we > often forget about the compat code. So, instead, rely on the control type, > as this is always updated when new controls are added. > > As both v4l2-ctrl and compat32 code are at videodev.ko module, we can > move the ctrl_is_pointer() helper function to v4l2-ctrl.c. This series doesn't really solve anything: - it introduces a circular dependency between two modules - it doesn't handle driver-custom controls (the old code didn't either). For example vivid has custom pointer controls. - it replaces a list of control IDs with a list of type IDs, which also has to be kept up to date. I thought this over and I have a better and much simpler idea. I'll post a patch for that. Regards, Hans > > --- > > Re-sending this patch series, as it was c/c to the linux-doc ML by mistake. > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (3): > media: v4l2-ctrls.h: better document the arguments for v4l2_ctrl_fill > media: v4l2-ctrls: prepare the function to be used by compat32 code > media: compat32: reimplement ctrl_is_pointer() > > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c | 18 +--------- > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h | 28 ++++++++++----- > 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) >
