On 1/25/21 6:31 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 14/01/2021 19:01, Helen Koike wrote:
>> sizeimage field should be set to zero for unused planes, even when
>> v4l2_pix_format_mplane.num_planes is smaller then the index of planes.
>
> then -> than
Ack.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Helen Koike <helen.koike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> I caught this with v4l2-compliance, which throws an error if we dirty
>> planes, even if invalid, so I would like to make it clear in the docs.
>
> What is the error? And with which driver?
I was implementing conversions to/from Ext API, and I thought v4l2-compliance
wasn't happy if I didn't zero the other entries, but I'm trying to reproduce
it now by adding a non-zero value to sizeimage and I can't reproduce it, so
it was probably my mistake.
Please ignore this patch and sorry for the noise.
>
> I wonder if this isn't a v4l2-compliance bug. And if we want this to be
> zeroed, then it wouldn't it be better to do that in the V4L2 core rather
> than bother drivers with this?
>
>> ---
>> include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
>> index 79dbde3bcf8d..d9b7c9177605 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
>> @@ -2227,6 +2227,7 @@ struct v4l2_mpeg_vbi_fmt_ivtv {
>> * struct v4l2_plane_pix_format - additional, per-plane format definition
>> * @sizeimage: maximum size in bytes required for data, for which
>> * this plane will be used
>> + * Drivers should be set it zero for unused planes.
>
> This sentence is a bit garbled.
>
> You probably meant: Drivers must set this to zero for unused planes.
>
> But it makes no sense to just zero this field. I would zero the whole struct
> contents for the unused planes.
>
>> * @bytesperline: distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two
>> * adjacent lines
>> */
>>
>
> The API doesn't mention whether unused plane formats should be zeroed or not,
> but it does make sense that they are. I don't think that the userspace API
> should be changed (esp. since there are apparently already drivers that do
> not zero these unused plane formats), but it makes sense that the compliance
> test does verify this, and that the V4L2 core would zero unused plane formats.
>
> I never like it when undefined values are allowed in an API, so it makes sense
> that this is done.
Ack.
Thanks
Helen
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
