On 06/16/2017 03:08 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 04:35:06PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verk...@cisco.com> >> >> Unfortunately the use of 'type' was inconsistent for multiplanar >> buffer types. Starting with 4.12 both the normal and _MPLANE variants >> are allowed, thus making it possible to write sensible code. >> >> Yes, we messed up :-( > > Things worse than this have happened. :-) > > I don't think in general I would write about driver bugs that have already > been fixed in developer documentation. That said, I'm not sure how otherwise > developers would learn about this, but OTOH has it been reported to us as a > bug? > > Marek, Sylwester: any idea how widely the drivers in question are in use? If > there's a real chance of hitting this, then it does make sense to mention it > in the documentation.
I'm not sure how widely are used those drivers, I think we should just assume they are deployed and whatever we do should be backwards compatible. I don't think it is much helpful for Exynos to add notes like this in the documentation, so far I didn't receive any related bug report. And even though now there is some confusion because drivers see "regular" buffer type while user space uses _MPLANE I like the $subject patch set as it makes the API clearer from user perspective. -- Regards, Sylwester
