Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] media: uvcvideo: Announce deprecation intentions for UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP

[Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>]

Hi,

On 16-Mar-26 14:34, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> The UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP lets userspace create a mapping for a custom
> control.
> 
> This mapping is usually created by the uvcdynctrl userspace utility. We
> would like to get the mappings into the driver instead.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>

Thanks, I've applied this to my local uvc/for-next branch and will
push this out to the public uvc repo for-next branch soon.

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>  Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst | 2 ++
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c                       | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> index dbb30ad389ae..b09d2f8ba66e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ IOCTL reference
>  UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP - Map a UVC control to a V4L2 control
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  
> +**This IOCTL is deprecated and will be eventually removed**
> +
>  Argument: struct uvc_xu_control_mapping
>  
>  **Description**:
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> index d5860661c115..f9049e9c0d3a 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> @@ -1046,6 +1046,8 @@ static long uvc_ioctl_default(struct file *file, void *priv, bool valid_prio,
>  	switch (cmd) {
>  	/* Dynamic controls. */
>  	case UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP:
> +		pr_warn_once("uvcvideo: " DEPRECATED
> +			     "UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP ioctl will be eventually removed.\n");
>  		return uvc_ioctl_xu_ctrl_map(chain, arg);
>  
>  	case UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY:
> @@ -1160,6 +1162,8 @@ static long uvc_v4l2_compat_ioctl32(struct file *file,
>  
>  	switch (cmd) {
>  	case UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP32:
> +		pr_warn_once("uvcvideo: " DEPRECATED
> +			     "UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP32 ioctl will be eventually removed.\n");
>  		ret = uvc_v4l2_get_xu_mapping(&karg.xmap, up);
>  		if (ret)
>  			break;
>