RE: [PATCH v5 2/7] v4l: Use full 32 bits for buffer flags

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Hi,

> From: Sakari Ailus [mailto:sakari.ailus@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:35 PM
> 
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On 02/15/2014 09:53 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> >> The buffer flags field is 32 bits but the defined only used 16. This
> >> is fine, but as more than 16 bits will be used in the very near
> >> future, define them as 32-bit numbers for consistency.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml |   30 ++++++++++++---------
> ----
> >>  include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h         |   38 +++++++++++++++++++--
> -----------
> >>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
> >> b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
> >> index 8facac4..46d24b3 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> @@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ in which case caches have not been
> used.</entry>
> >>  	  </row>
> >>  	  <row>
> >>
> <entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_COPY</constant></entry>
> >> -	    <entry>0x4000</entry>
> >> +	    <entry>0x00004000</entry>
> >>  	    <entry>The CAPTURE buffer timestamp has been taken from the
> >>  	    corresponding OUTPUT buffer. This flag applies only to
> mem2mem devices.</entry>
> >>  	  </row>
> >
> > Should we add here that if TIMESTAMP_COPY is set and the TIMECODE
> flag
> > is set, then drivers should copy the TIMECODE struct as well? This is
> > happening already in various drivers and I think that is appropriate.
> > Although to be honest nobody is actually using the timecode struct,
> > but we plan to hijack that for hardware timestamps in the future
> anyway.
> 
> Is there a single driver which uses the timecode field? The fact is
> that many m2m drivers copy it but that's probably mostly copying what
> one of them happened to do by accident. :-)

Let's focus on not breaking m2m drivers with timestamp patches this time.
I'm sure it was a matter of accident with the initial timestamp patches.

I agree with Hans here, not sure about hijacking it in the future, though.

Best wishes,
-- 
Kamil Debski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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