Re: [PATCH RFC] [media] Postpone the addition of MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:37:19AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 12/28/2015 07:03 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > There are a few discussions left with regards to this ioctl:
> > 
> > 1) the name of the new structs will contain _v2_ on it?
> > 2) what's the best alternative to avoid compat32 issues?
> > 
> > Due to that, let's postpone the addition of this new ioctl to
> > the next Kernel version, to give people more time to discuss it.
> 
> I thought we discussed this in our irc meeting and
> arrived at a good solution for compat32 issue
> 
> My recommendation is getting this ioctl into 4.5 with
> a warning that it could change. The reason for that is
> that this ioctl helps with testing the media controller
> v2 api. Without this API, we won't see much testing from
> userspace in 4.5

People will ignore the warning, that never works :(

sorry,

greg k-h
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