linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] v4l2: fill reserved fields of VIDIOC

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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:34:07 +0100
From:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
To:	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v4l2: fill reserved fields of VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO also

On Friday 27 March 2009 20:45:40 Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:51:39 +0100
> >
> > Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu> wrote:
> > > From: Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu>
> > >
> > > When enumerating audio inputs with VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO the gspca_sunplus
> > > driver does not fill the reserved fields of the struct v4l2_audio
> > > with zeros as required by V4L2 API revision 0.24 [1]. Add the missing
> > > initializations to the V4L2 framework.
> > >
> > > The patch was tested with v4l-test 0.10 [2] with gspca_sunplus driver
> > > and with Trust 610 LCD POWERC@M ZOOM webcam.
> >
> > It didn't apply against the development tree. Anyway, a recent patch
> > removed the need of memset there. the memory fill with zero now happens
> > at the same code we copy the structure values.
>
> That code is in video_ioctl2, which gspca doesn't use.

Yes, gspca does use video_ioctl2. You're probably confused with uvcvideo, 
which doesn't use it.

Regards,

	Hans

-- 
Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG
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