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SubjectRe: [PATCHv3 05/11] videobuf2: handle V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT flag
On (20/02/27 13:36), Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
> > index bd08e4f77ae4..6a8a4d5de2f1 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
> > @@ -121,7 +121,13 @@ than the number requested.
> > other changes, then set ``count`` to 0, ``memory`` to
> > ``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and ``format.type`` to the buffer type.
> > * - __u32
> > - - ``reserved``\ [7]
> > + - ``flags``
> > + - Specifies additional buffer management attributes.
> > + See :ref:`memory-flags`. Old drivers and applications must set it to
> > + zero.
>
> Drop the last sentence, it's not relevant.

OK.

> > +
> > + * - __u32
> > + - ``reserved``\ [6]
> > - A place holder for future extensions. Drivers and applications
> > must set the array to zero.
>
> Old drivers and applications still think reserved is [7] and will zero this.

OK.

Hmm... If those apps use hard-coded size then we might have a problem.
If they use sizeof(reserved) then everything is OK. Shall we also have
a union here?

> > diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
> > index 917df6fb6486..e52cc4401fba 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
> > @@ -112,10 +112,19 @@ aborting or finishing any DMA in progress, an implicit
> > ``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and ``type`` set to the buffer type. This will
> > free any previously allocated buffers, so this is typically something
> > that will be done at the start of the application.
> > - * - __u32
> > + * - union
> > + - (anonymous)
>
> Anonymous unions are formatted a bit differently (I made a very recent patch
> that unified the union formatting in the v4l docs). See e.g.
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst.

OK, will take a look.

-ss

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