On Monday 29 February 2016 13:56:10 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Monday 29 February 2016 12:45:41 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Instead of letting drivers fill in device_caps at querycap time,
> > let them fill it in when the video device is registered.
> >
> > This has the advantage that in the future the v4l2 core can access
> > the video device's capabilities and take decisions based on that.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 3 +++
> > include/media/v4l2-dev.h | 3 +++
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> > b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c index 86c4c19..706bb42 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> > @@ -1020,9 +1020,12 @@ static int v4l_querycap(const struct v4l2_ioctl_ops
> > *ops, struct file *file, void *fh, void *arg)
> >
> > {
> >
> > struct v4l2_capability *cap = (struct v4l2_capability *)arg;
> >
> > + struct video_device *vfd = video_devdata(file);
> >
> > int ret;
> >
> > cap->version = LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
> >
> > + cap->device_caps = vfd->device_caps;
> > + cap->capabilities = vfd->device_caps | V4L2_CAP_DEVICE_CAPS;
> >
> > ret = ops->vidioc_querycap(file, fh, cap);
> >
> > diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
> > index 76056ab..25a3190 100644
> > --- a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
> > +++ b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
> > @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ struct video_device
> >
> > /* device ops */
> > const struct v4l2_file_operations *fops;
> >
> > + /* device capabilities as used in v4l2_capabilities */
> > + u32 device_caps;
>
> How about adding capabilities too (on 64-bit systems we won't lose any space
> as the previous and following fields are 64-bit aligned anyway) ? This
> would allow most, if not all, drivers to drop their vidioc_querycap
> implementation.
It obviously wouldn't as there are other fields to fill. I should wake up
before sending e-mails.
> > /* sysfs */
> > struct device dev; /* v4l device */
> > struct cdev *cdev; /* character device */
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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