Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:02:08 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 14/36] media: rkisp1: uapi: change hist_bins array type from __u16 to __u32 |
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 01:45:35PM +0100, Dafna Hirschfeld wrote: > > > Am 08.02.21 um 21:46 schrieb Hans Verkuil: > > On 08/02/2021 18:57, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > From: Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com> > > > > > > [ Upstream commit 31f190e0ccac8b75d33fdc95a797c526cf9b149e ] > > > > > > Each entry in the array is a 20 bits value composed of 16 bits unsigned > > > integer and 4 bits fractional part. So the type should change to __u32. > > > In addition add a documentation of how the measurements are done. > > > > Dafna, Helen, does it make sense at all to backport these three patches to > > when rkisp1 was a staging driver? > > > > I would be inclined not to backport this. > > I also don't think it makes sense since this changes the uapi and it is not really a bug fix.
Why was it ok to change the uapi in a newer kernel and not an older one?
thanks,
greg k-h
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