Re: [PATCH 11/15] [media] Deprecate v4l2_mbus_pixelcode

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 10:20:25 EST




On 11/05/14 16:15, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:08:15 +0200
> Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Boris,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:55:06AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> The v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum (or its values) should be replaced by the
>>> media_bus_format enum.
>>> Keep this enum in v4l2-mediabus.h and create a new header containing
>>> the v4l2_mbus_framefmt struct definition (which is not deprecated) so
>>> that we can add a #warning statement in v4l2-mediabus.h and hopefully
>>> encourage users to move to the new definitions.
>>>
>>> Replace inclusion of v4l2-mediabus.h with v4l2-mbus.h in all common headers
>>> and update the documentation Makefile to parse v4l2-mbus.h instead of
>>> v4l2-mediabus.h.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile | 2 +-
>>> include/media/v4l2-mediabus.h | 2 +-
>>> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
>>> include/uapi/linux/v4l2-mbus.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> include/uapi/linux/v4l2-mediabus.h | 26 ++++----------------------
>>
>> I would keep the original file name, even if the compatibility definitions
>> are there. I don't see any harm in having them around as well.
>>
>
> That's the part I was not sure about.
> The goal of this patch (and the following ones) is to deprecate
> v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum and its values by adding a #warning when
> v4l2-mediabus.h file is included, thus encouraging people to use new
> definitions.

Since v4l2-mediabus.h contains struct v4l2_mbus_framefmt this header remains
a legal header, so you can't use #warning here in any case.

Regards,

Hans

>
> Do you see another solution to generate such warnings at compilation
> time ?
>
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