Re: [GIT PULL FOR 3.9] Exynos SoC media drivers updates

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Em Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:53:52 +0100
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Sun January 6 2013 13:41:57 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:34:53 +0100
> > Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > 
> > > On 01/06/2013 12:32 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > Em Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:39:12 +0100
> > > > Sylwester Nawrocki<sylvester.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxx>  escreveu:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>> Tomasz Stanislawski (1):
> > > >>>         s5p-tv: mixer: fix handling of VIDIOC_S_FMT
> > > >
> > > > I'll drop this one for now. Devin raised a point: such changes would break
> > > > existing applications.
> > > >
> > > > So, we'll need to revisit this topic before changing the drivers.
> > > >
> > > > Btw, I failed to find the corresponding patch at patchwork:
> > > > 	http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/list/?state=*&q=VIDIOC_S_FMT
> > > >
> > > > So, its status update may be wrong after flushing your pwclient commands.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I got this patch from Tomasz by e-mail and added it to the pull 
> > > request.
> > > I think it wasn't sent to the mailing list, but I noticed it only after
> > > sending you the pull requests, when was preparing the pwclient commands.
> > > I've just posted it now, sorry. The link is here:
> > > http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/16143
> > > 
> > > Tomasz created this patch specifically for the purpose of format negotiation
> > > in video pipeline in the application we used to test various scenarios with
> > > DMABUF. I agree this patch has a potential of breaking buggy user space
> > > applications. I can't see other solution for it right now, there seems even
> > > to be no possibility to return some flag in VIDIOC_S_FMT indicating that
> > > format has been modified and is valid, when -EINVAL was returned. This 
> > > sounds
> > > ugly anyway, but could ensure backward compatibility for applications that
> > > exppect EINVAL when format has been changed. BTW, I wonder if it is only 
> > > fourcc,
> > > or other format parameters as well - like width, height, some applications
> > > expect to get EINVAL when those have changed.
> > 
> > The patch makes the driver compliant to v4l-compilance, as its behavior asks
> > for such change, after some discussions we had this year in San Diego. At that
> > time, we all believed that such change were safe.
> > 
> > However, we can't do it like proposed there (and on other patches from Hans).
> > 
> > The fact is that tvtime and mythtv applications (maybe more) will fail 
> > if the returned format is different than the requested ones, as they 
> > don't check for the returned value.
> > 
> > As no regressions on userspace are allowed, we need to re-discuss this issue.
> > 
> > While this doesn't happen, I'll postpone such patches.
> 
> This is a video output device. So this patch will never affect tvtime/mythtv/etc.
> I have no problem with this change being merged.

Ok. still, we need to double-check what happens on video output apps. I'll keep
it on hold for a while, tagged as "under review" at Sylwester's umbrella.

Regards,
Mauro
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