Integer controls provide a way to get their default/initial value, but any other control (p_u32, p_u8.....) provide no other way to get the initial value than unloading the module and loading it back. *What is the actual problem? I have a custom control with WIDTH integer values. Every value represents the calibrated FPN (fixed pattern noise) correction value for that column -Application A changes the FPN correction value -Application B wants to restore the calibrated value but it cant :( *What is the proposed solution? (Kudos to Hans Verkuil!!!) The key change is in struct v4l2_ext_controls where the __u32 ctrl_class field is changed to: union { __u32 ctrl_class; __u32 which; }; And two new defines are added: #define V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL 0 #define V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_DEF_VAL 0x0f000000 The 'which' field tells you which controls are get/set/tried. V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL: the current value of the controls V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_DEF_VAL: the default value of the controls V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_*: the current value of the controls belonging to the specified class. Note: this is deprecated usage and is only there for backwards compatibility. Which is also why I don't think there is a need to add V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_ aliases for these defines. I have posted a copy of my working tree to: https://github.com/ribalda/linux/tree/which_def_v5 Changelog v2 (compared to Support getting default values from any control Rebase to latest version Remove saa7164-* patches (Hans already ported them to v4l2-ctrl) Update doc dates Suggested by Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Fixes for the uvc implementation (error in lock handling) (Thanks!) Changelog v1 (compared to v5 of New ioct VIDIOC_G_DEF_EXT_CTRLS): Suggested by Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>: Replace ioctl implementation with a new union on the struct v4l2_ext_controls THANKS! Ricardo Ribalda Delgado (6): videodev2.h: Extend struct v4l2_ext_controls media/core: Replace ctrl_class with which media/v4l2-core: struct struct v4l2_ext_controls param which usb/uvc: Support for V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_DEF_VAL media/usb/pvrusb2: Support for V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_DEF_VAL Docbook: media: Document changes on struct v4l2_ext_controls Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml | 10 ++++ .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml | 28 +++++++++-- drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_dec.c | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_enc.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c | 16 ++++++- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 20 ++++++++ drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c | 6 +-- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++------ drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 14 +++--- include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 12 ++++- 10 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) -- 2.6.1 -- 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