Re: [RFC 1/5] uapi/linux/media.h: add flag field to struct media_device_info

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:37:44AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Niklas,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:30:47PM +0100, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> > Add a flags field to the media_device_info structure by taking one
> > of the reserved u32 fields. The use-case is to have a way to
> > (optionally) report to user-space if the media graph is complete or not.
> > 
> > Also define two flags to carry information about if the graph is
> > complete or not. If neither of the two flags are set the
> > media device does not support reporting its graph status. The other bits
> > in the flags field are unused for now, but could be claimed to carry
> > other type of information in the future.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/uapi/linux/media.h | 9 ++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media.h b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> > index 383ac7b7d8f07eca..9b37ed8b41d0d866 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> > @@ -34,9 +34,16 @@ struct media_device_info {
> >  	__u32 media_version;
> >  	__u32 hw_revision;
> >  	__u32 driver_version;
> > -	__u32 reserved[31];
> > +	__u32 flags;
> > +	__u32 reserved[30];
> 
> I think this information should be added to media_v2_topology, not
> media_device_info, otherwise you'll have a race condition between
> retrieving the media device information and the topology.
> media_device_info is really supposed to be static.

Also, documentation is needed.

> >  };
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * Graph flags
> > + */
> > +#define MEDIA_INFO_FLAG_INCOMPLETE	(1 << 0)
> > +#define MEDIA_INFO_FLAG_COMPLETE	(1 << 1)
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * Base number ranges for entity functions
> >   *

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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