V4L/DVB: pvrusb2: New feature to mark specific hardware support as experimental
This adds a flag in the device attribute structure which can be used
to mark support for a particular device as experimental. Any devices
flagged in this way, when encountered at run-time, will generate a
warning message to the kernel log.
Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-devattr.h b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-devattr.h
index e5b9594..273c8d4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-devattr.h
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-devattr.h
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@
unsigned int flag_has_composite:1; /* Has composite input */
unsigned int flag_has_svideo:1; /* Has s-video input */
unsigned int flag_fx2_16kb:1; /* 16KB FX2 firmware OK here */
+
+ /* If this driver is considered experimental, i.e. not all aspects
+ are working correctly and/or it is untested, mark that fact
+ with this flag. */
+ unsigned int flag_is_experimental:1;
};
extern struct usb_device_id pvr2_device_table[];
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-hdw.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-hdw.c
index d13232d..2c3f845 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-hdw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-hdw.c
@@ -2459,6 +2459,19 @@
hdw,hdw_desc->description);
pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO, "Hardware description: %s",
hdw_desc->description);
+ if (hdw_desc->flag_is_experimental) {
+ pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO, "**********");
+ pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO,
+ "WARNING: Support for this device (%s) is"
+ " experimental.", hdw_desc->description);
+ pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO,
+ "Important functionality might not be"
+ " entirely working.");
+ pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO,
+ "Please consider contacting the driver author to"
+ " help with further stabilization of the driver.");
+ pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_INFO, "**********");
+ }
if (!hdw) goto fail;
init_timer(&hdw->quiescent_timer);