Hi Sakari,

On Thursday 22 July 2010 19:30:21 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> +
> >>> +struct media_user_pad {
> >>> + __u32 entity;           /* entity ID */
> >>> + __u8 index;             /* pad index */
> >>> + __u32 direction;        /* pad direction */
> >>> +};
> >> 
> >> Another small comment, I think you mentioned it yourself some time back
> >> 
> >> :-): how about some reserved fields to these structures?
> > 
> > Very good point. Reserved fields are needed in media_user_entity and
> > media_user_links at least. For media_user_pad and media_user_link, we
> > could do without reserved fields if we add fields to media_user_links to
> > store the size of those structures.
> 
> The structure size is part of the ioctl number defined by the _IOC macro

Not in this case, the ioctl uses a structure that stores pointers to the links 
and pads arrays.

> so I'd go with reserved fields even for these structures. Otherwise
> special handling would be required for these ioctls in a few places.

A few reserved links would still be good, yes.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to