linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 00/12] Implement V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE

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Message-ID: <20200226112004.GH122464@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:20:04 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Pawel Osciak <posciak@...omium.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 00/12] Implement V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_* flags

On (20/02/19 09:53), Hans Verkuil wrote:
[..]
> This is starting to look pretty good. I think you can drop the RFC
> for the next time you post this.

OK!

> One thing I would like to see as well is test code in v4l2-compliance,
> specifically for testing the various flags and capabilities. I.e.,
> if V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_CACHE_HINTS, then it should test that it can
> set the cache flags and the NON_CONSISTENT flag. If it is not set,
> then those flags should be cleared when attempting to set them.
>
> Also code in v4l2-ctl and common/v4l2-info.cpp to support the new
> flags, both reporting them, but also setting them.

I do have two trivial patches - "sync videobuf kernel header"
and "add new capability to common/v4l2-info.cpp".

But v4l2-ctl and v4l2-compliance will require much more time,
I think. So I, hopefully, will do it sometime later.

	-ss