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From: 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sunyoung Kang <sy0816.kang@samsung.com>
Cc: mchehab@kernel.org, 'Hans Verkuil' <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
	'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@arndb.de>,
	'Thomas Gleixner' <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy reserved2 field in get_v4l2_buffer32
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:37:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200418073719.GA2410414@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <145301d6152f$6d5b6240$481226c0$@samsung.com>

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:14:09PM +0900, Sunyoung Kang wrote:
> Exynos video codec driver uses reserved2 value. How will reserved2 be used
> for future use?

No driver should be using the "reserved" fields, as they are "reserved"
by the api for future expansion of it.  They are not driver-specific
fields to be used that way at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-18  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200417025205epcas2p46d33e64f2de49041d2ca68ecc98fc83e@epcas2p4.samsung.com>
2020-04-17  2:45 ` [PATCH] media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy reserved2 field in get_v4l2_buffer32 sy0816.kang
2020-04-17  7:24   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-18  3:13     ` Sunyoung Kang
2020-04-17  8:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-18  3:14     ` Sunyoung Kang
2020-04-18  7:37       ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' [this message]
2020-04-20  0:40         ` Sunyoung Kang
2020-04-20 11:23           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-21  3:33             ` Sunyoung Kang
2020-04-21  7:46               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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