Hi all, As you may have seen I have been adding a lot of tests to the v4l2-compliance utility in v4l-utils lately. It is now getting to the state that is becomes quite useful even though there is no full coverage yet. Currently the following ioctls are being tested: General ioctls: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP VIDIOC_G/S_PRIORITY Debug ioctls: VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT VIDIOC_DBG_G/S_REGISTER VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS Input ioctls: VIDIOC_G/S_TUNER VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMAUDIO VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMINPUT Output ioctls: VIDIOC_G/S_MODULATOR VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMAUDOUT VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMOUTPUT Control ioctls: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL/MENU VIDIOC_G/S_CTRL VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS I/O configuration ioctls: VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_STD VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_DV_PRESETS VIDIOC_G/S_DV_TIMINGS Not yet implemented: VIDIOC_CROPCAP, VIDIOC_G/S_CROP VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT/FRAMESIZES/FRAMEINTERVALS VIDIOC_G/S_FBUF/OVERLAY VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_FMT VIDIOC_G/S_PARM VIDIOC_G/S_JPEGCOMP VIDIOC_SLICED_VBI_CAP VIDIOC_S_HW_FREQ_SEEK VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT/UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT/DQEVENT VIDIOC_(TRY_)ENCODER_CMD VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX VIDIOC_REQBUFS/QBUF/DQBUF/QUERYBUF VIDIOC_STREAMON/OFF Interactive tests with e.g. hotplugging Also tested is whether you can open device nodes multiple times. These tests are pretty exhaustive and more strict than the spec itself. The main goal is to get consistent behavior for all drivers that applications can rely on. For example, if a driver has controls then the compliance tool checks if *all* control functions are supported. So apps do not have to guess whether a driver does or does not support extended controls. Ditto for priority handling: the compliance test requires support for this. The control framework gives an easy way to support the full control API and the upcoming priority core patches will make it trivial to support the priority API. Most other tests check carefully whether the information returned by the driver is consistent. E.g. if you support S_INPUT, then you must also support ENUMINPUT. And if ENUMINPUT says that you support certain standards, then S_STD is also checked for that, etc. etc. By default the output looks like this: $ ./v4l2-compliance -d1 Running on 2.6.37 Driver Info: Driver name : ivtv Card type : Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Bus info : PCI:0000:04:05.0 Driver version: 1.4.2 Capabilities : 0x010702D3 Video Capture Video Output Video Output Overlay VBI Capture Sliced VBI Capture Sliced VBI Output Tuner Audio Radio Read/Write Compliance test for device /dev/video1 (not using libv4l2): Required ioctls: test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK Allow for multiple opens: test second video open: OK test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK test VIDIOC_G/S_PRIORITY: OK Debug ioctls: test VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT: OK test VIDIOC_DBG_G/S_REGISTER: OK test VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS: OK Input ioctls: fail: rangelow >= rangehigh fail: invalid tuner 0 test VIDIOC_G/S_TUNER: FAIL fail: could get frequency for invalid tuner 0 test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: FAIL test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMAUDIO: OK test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMINPUT: OK Inputs: 6 Audio Inputs: 3 Tuners: 0 Output ioctls: test VIDIOC_G/S_MODULATOR: Not Supported fail: could get frequency for invalid modulator 0 test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: FAIL test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMAUDOUT: OK test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMOUTPUT: OK Outputs: 6 Audio Outputs: 1 Modulators: 0 Control ioctls: test VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL/MENU: OK test VIDIOC_G/S_CTRL: OK test VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS: OK Standard Controls: 32 Private Controls: 12 Input/Output configuration ioctls: test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_STD: OK test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_DV_PRESETS: Not Supported test VIDIOC_G/S_DV_TIMINGS: Not Supported Total: 21 Succeeded: 18 Failed: 3 Warnings: 4 Each test will bail out as soon as the first error appears. There are three possible results: OK, FAIL and "Not Supported", which means that the driver does not support these ioctls and gives the correct error code back to the application if it tries to use it anyway. With -v you set the verbosity level: -v1 shows warnings as well, -v2 also shows info messages. Other options: $ ./v4l2-compliance -h Usage: Common options: -D, --info show driver info [VIDIOC_QUERYCAP] -d, --device=<dev> use device <dev> as the video device if <dev> is a single digit, then /dev/video<dev> is used -r, --radio-device=<dev> use device <dev> as the radio device if <dev> is a single digit, then /dev/radio<dev> is used -V, --vbi-device=<dev> use device <dev> as the vbi device if <dev> is a single digit, then /dev/vbi<dev> is used -h, --help display this help message -v, --verbose=<level> turn on verbose reporting. level 1: show warnings level 2: show warnings and info messages -T, --trace trace all called ioctls. -w, --wrapper use the libv4l2 wrapper library. The tool is still under heavy development, so I'm sure these options will change in the future. Anyway, try it out and let me know if you find errors, corner cases that are not tested, etc. etc. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html