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From: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Add dprintk calls for control validation in v4l2-ctrls.c?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:17:02 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7f6d636-1791-fb90-d4f4-0eb58993cb4d@collabora.com> (raw)

Hi Hans, Ezequiel & all.

I find it a bit hard to debug my own code when it invariably sneaks in a 
bad control value with the VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS ioctl.


I feel that it would be tremendously beneficial to encourage the use of 
dprintk calls in v4l2-ctrls.c to inform the user about what pieces of 
data were actually rejected in the validation functions.

#define dprintk(vdev, fmt, arg...) do {					\
	if (!WARN_ON(!(vdev)) && ((vdev)->dev_debug & V4L2_DEV_DEBUG_CTRL)) \
		printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt("%s: %s: " fmt),		\
		       __func__, video_device_node_name(vdev), ##arg);	


Unfortunately the dprintk macro above takes a pointer to struct 
video_device as argument. This is not available in the places I want to 
actually place the calls, as far as I could tell.

E.g. here:

static int std_validate_compound(const struct v4l2_ctrl *ctrl, u32 idx,
				 union v4l2_ctrl_ptr ptr)

I'd like to make the changes to make this possible, if any, or be 
pointed at another solution if there is one - such as calling pr_err 
directly or something along these lines - please.

Kindly advise?

-- thanks
-- Daniel

             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27  0:17 Daniel Almeida [this message]
2021-04-28  7:43 ` Add dprintk calls for control validation in v4l2-ctrls.c? Hans Verkuil

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