From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38275 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752301AbbL1Pob (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:44:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 07:44:29 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Shuah Khan Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Media Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hans Verkuil , Laurent Pinchart , Javier Martinez Canillas , Sakari Ailus Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [media] Postpone the addition of MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY Message-ID: <20151228154429.GA27560@kroah.com> References: <5681572F.601@osg.samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5681572F.601@osg.samsung.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:37:19AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 12/28/2015 07:03 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > There are a few discussions left with regards to this ioctl: > > > > 1) the name of the new structs will contain _v2_ on it? > > 2) what's the best alternative to avoid compat32 issues? > > > > Due to that, let's postpone the addition of this new ioctl to > > the next Kernel version, to give people more time to discuss it. > > I thought we discussed this in our irc meeting and > arrived at a good solution for compat32 issue > > My recommendation is getting this ioctl into 4.5 with > a warning that it could change. The reason for that is > that this ioctl helps with testing the media controller > v2 api. Without this API, we won't see much testing from > userspace in 4.5 People will ignore the warning, that never works :( sorry, greg k-h