Re: [PATCH RFC] [media] Postpone the addition of MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY

[Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>]

On 12/28/2015 08:44 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 :(
> 

Yeah. If people do ignore warnings, it could become a
problem if we have to make changes.

-- Shuah


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