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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2022-07-08 17:21:40 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>2022-07-15 16:17:31 +0100
commit64fe675e999c2c7d753ecaaa1349693c59ce6c11 (patch)
treedd3e899b19fef36aae1029dcf6a150bee5c1c068
parentb228cf38f0b72d797fab60386da7ee935e033aac (diff)
downloadlinux-64fe675e999c2c7d753ecaaa1349693c59ce6c11.tar.bz2
media: videodev2.h: add V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY
Add a new flag that indicates that this control is a dynamically sized array. Also document this flag. Currently dynamically sized arrays are limited to one dimensional arrays, but that might change in the future if there is a need for it. The initial use-case of dynamic arrays are stateless codecs. A frame can be divided in many slices, so you want to provide an array containing slice information for each slice. Typically the number of slices is small, but the standard allow for hundreds or thousands of slices. Dynamic arrays are a good solution since sizing the array for the worst case would waste substantial amounts of memory. Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com> Tested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-queryctrl.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions1
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h1
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-queryctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-queryctrl.rst
index 88f630252d98..a20dfa2a933b 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-queryctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-queryctrl.rst
@@ -625,6 +625,14 @@ See also the examples in :ref:`control`.
``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_GRABBED`` flag when buffers are allocated or
streaming is in progress since most drivers do not support changing
the format in that case.
+ * - ``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY``
+ - 0x0800
+ - This control is a dynamically sized 1-dimensional array. It
+ behaves the same as a regular array, except that the number
+ of elements as reported by the ``elems`` field is between 1 and
+ ``dims[0]``. So setting the control with a differently sized
+ array will change the ``elems`` field when the control is
+ queried afterwards.
Return Value
============
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
index 9cbb7a0c354a..0b91200776f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_VOLATILE control-flags
replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_HAS_PAYLOAD control-flags
replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_EXECUTE_ON_WRITE control-flags
replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_MODIFY_LAYOUT control-flags
+replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY control-flags
replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL control
replace define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_COMPOUND control
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
index e32b9e25258d..87ebc6baafb6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
@@ -1914,6 +1914,7 @@ struct v4l2_querymenu {
#define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_HAS_PAYLOAD 0x0100
#define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_EXECUTE_ON_WRITE 0x0200
#define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_MODIFY_LAYOUT 0x0400
+#define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY 0x0800
/* Query flags, to be ORed with the control ID */
#define V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL 0x80000000