On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011, Ming Lei wrote:
>> > Using an array added to the end of the v4l2_fd_result structure
>> > rather than a pointer would really make this easier IMHO.
>>
>> I have tried to do this, but video_usercopy needs a few changes
>> to handle array args if no indirect pointer is passed to kernel.
>
> Ah, I see. Or you would have to encode the array size into the
> ioctl command, which is also ugly in a different way.
>
>> I am not sure if media guys are happy to accept the changes, :-)
>
> Maybe Mauro can comment on which solution he prefers then, given
> the choice between:
>
> 1. adding another handler in drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c
>
> 2. passing a pointer that is casted to __u64 in user space an back
> in the kernel
>
> 3. extending video_usercopy in some way to make this work, preferably
> in a generic way.
Maybe this one is a good choice, and I think that it is worthy to
support the below kind of array parameter:
struct v4l2_fd_result {
__u32 buf_index;
__u32 face_cnt;
__u32 reserved[6];
struct v4l2_fd_detection fd[];
};
and it is not difficult to implement it in a generic way so that new
array parameters can be supported as 64/32 compatible.
> 4. using a variable command number like
> #define VIDIOC_G_FD_RESULT(num) _IOC(_IOC_READ|_IOC_WRITE,'V', 95, \
> sizeof(struct v4l2_fd_result) + (num) * sizeof(struct v4l2_fd_detection)
>
> 5. requiring the interface to be simplified to return only a single
> struct v4l2_fd_detection at a time
Maybe this one is not user friendly since other v4l2 interfaces provide
array parameters way, :-)
> I agree that none of these are nice. My preferred option would be last one,
> but I don't know how performance critical the interface is or if it would
> cause any races that you want to avoid.
thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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