[PATCH] [media] exynos-gsc: Avoid spamming the log on VIDIOC_TRY_FMT

Shuah Khan shuahkh at osg.samsung.com
Wed Feb 1 18:25:49 PST 2017


On 01/24/2017 02:42 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> There isn't an ioctl to enum the supported field orders, so a user-space
> application can call VIDIOC_TRY_FMT using different field orders to know
> if one is supported. For example, GStreamer does this so during playback
> dozens of the following messages appear in the kernel log buffer:
> 
> [ 442.143393] Not supported field order(4)
> 
> Instead of printing this as an error, just keep it as debug information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>  drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
> index 8524fe15fa80..678b600f0500 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ int gsc_try_fmt_mplane(struct gsc_ctx *ctx, struct v4l2_format *f)
>  	if (pix_mp->field == V4L2_FIELD_ANY)
>  		pix_mp->field = V4L2_FIELD_NONE;
>  	else if (pix_mp->field != V4L2_FIELD_NONE) {
> -		pr_err("Not supported field order(%d)\n", pix_mp->field);
> +		pr_debug("Not supported field order(%d)\n", pix_mp->field);

It make sense to leave it as an error, but print only once perhaps.
The down side to making this debug is that it becomes harder to
figure out when we run into this case.

thanks,
-- Shuah

>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> 




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