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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>,
	"Nicolas Dufresne" <nicolas@ndufresne.ca>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH FOR stable v5.11] media: cedrus: Remove checking for required controls
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:05:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEi2CueFSqk/6lnb@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f938a1ba-d9ae-3b39-a066-60504a9e6c12@xs4all.nl>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:49:38AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> From: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 7072db89572135f28cad65f15877bf7e67cf2ff8 ]
> 
> According to v4l2 request api specifications, it's allowed to skip
> control if its content isn't changed for performance reasons. Cedrus
> driver predates that, so it has implemented mechanism to check if all
> required controls are included in one request.
> 
> Conform to specifications with removing that mechanism.
> 
> Note that this mechanism with static required flag isn't very good
> anyway because need for control is usually signaled in other controls.
> 
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
> ---
> Without this patch the H264 cedrus support is non-compliant, and since 5.11
> was the first kernel with a stable H264 stateless codec ABI it would be
> good to have this merged for 5.11 so the cedrus driver can be used with
> H264.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-10 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-10 10:49 [PATCH FOR stable v5.11] media: cedrus: Remove checking for required controls Hans Verkuil
2021-03-10 12:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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