Hi Hans,

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:34:20 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Thursday, September 08, 2011 09:45:15 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > A possibility to preallocate and initialise buffers of different sizes
> > in V4L2 is required for an efficient implementation of a snapshot
> > mode. This patch adds two new ioctl()s: VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS and
> > VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF and defines respective data structures.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <[email protected]>
> > ---

[snip]

> > @@ -2096,6 +2098,33 @@ static long __video_do_ioctl(struct file *file,
> > 
> >             dbgarg(cmd, "type=0x%8.8x", sub->type);
> >             break;
> >     
> >     }
> > 
> > +   case VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS:
> > +   {
> > +           struct v4l2_create_buffers *create = arg;
> > +
> > +           if (!ops->vidioc_create_bufs)
> > +                   break;
> 
> Just as with REQBUFS you need to add code here to handle priority checking:
> 
>               if (ret_prio) {
>                       ret = ret_prio;
>                       break;
>               }

Speaking of prio support, how is locking handled here ? Does video_ioctl2() 
require drivers to synchronize all ioctl calls or can it work with fine-grain 
locking ?
 
> > +           ret = check_fmt(ops, create->format.type);
> > +           if (ret)
> > +                   break;
> > +
> > +           ret = ops->vidioc_create_bufs(file, fh, create);
> > +
> > +           dbgarg(cmd, "count=%d @ %d\n", create->count, create->index);
> > +           break;
> > +   }

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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