On 02/05/2018 01:39 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sun, 4 Feb 2018 14:53:31 +0100
> Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
>
>> Userspace has no way of knowing the pad index for the entity that
>> owns the pad with the MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY ioctl. However, various
>> v4l-subdev ioctls need to pass this as an argument.
>
> While I'm OK on adding a pad index, it still misses a way for Kernelspace
> to inform the kind of signal it is expected for the cases where an entity
> provides multiple PAD inputs or outputs with different meanings, e. g.
> for cases like TV tuner, where different PAD outputs have different
> signals and should be connected to different entities, based on the PAD
> type.
>
> In other words, we need also either a:
> - pad name;
> - pad type;
> - pad signal.
As mentioned, I agree but it is unrelated to this issue.
>
>>
>> Add this missing information.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verk...@cisco.com>
>> ---
>> RFC, so no documentation yet. This works fine, but how would applications
>> know that media_v2_pad has been extended with a new index field? Currently
>> this is 0, which is a valid index.
>>
>> If no one is using this API (or only for DVB devices) then we can do that.
>> The other alternative is to add a new pad flag MEDIA_PAD_FL_HAS_INDEX.
Any comment on this?
Regards,
Hans
>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> index e79f72b8b858..16964d3dfb1e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c
>> @@ -318,6 +320,7 @@ static long media_device_get_topology(struct
>> media_device *mdev,
>> kpad.id = pad->graph_obj.id;
>> kpad.entity_id = pad->entity->graph_obj.id;
>> kpad.flags = pad->flags;
>> + kpad.index = pad->index;
>>
>> if (copy_to_user(upad, &kpad, sizeof(kpad)))
>> ret = -EFAULT;
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media.h b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> index b9b9446095e9..c3e7a668e122 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
>> @@ -375,7 +375,8 @@ struct media_v2_pad {
>> __u32 id;
>> __u32 entity_id;
>> __u32 flags;
>> - __u32 reserved[5];
>> + __u16 index;
>> + __u16 reserved[9];
>> } __attribute__ ((packed));
>>
>> struct media_v2_link {
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
>
