Re: [PATCH 3/4] media: uvcvideo: Announce deprecation intentions for UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP

From: Laurent Pinchart

Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 23:22:31 EST


Hi Ricardo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 08:14:18PM +0000, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> The UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP lets userspace create a mapping for a custom
> control.
>
> This mapping is usually created by the uvcdynctrl userspace utility. We
> would like to get the mappings into the driver instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst | 2 ++
> drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> index dbb30ad389ae4d53bc734b4269ebea20ecdd7535..b09d2f8ba66ecde67f1e35fd77858a505ad44eb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/uvcvideo.rst
> @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ IOCTL reference
> UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP - Map a UVC control to a V4L2 control
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> +**This IOCTL is deprecated and will be eventually removed**
> +
> Argument: struct uvc_xu_control_mapping
>
> **Description**:
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> index 9e4a251eca88085a1b4e0e854370015855be92ee..03c64b5698bf4331fed8437fa6e9c726a07450bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> @@ -1044,6 +1044,8 @@ static long uvc_ioctl_default(struct file *file, void *priv, bool valid_prio,
> switch (cmd) {
> /* Dynamic controls. */
> case UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP:
> + pr_warn_once("uvcvideo: " DEPRECATED
> + "UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP ioctl will be eventually removed.\n");
> return uvc_ioctl_xu_ctrl_map(chain, arg);
>
> case UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY:
> @@ -1158,6 +1160,8 @@ static long uvc_v4l2_compat_ioctl32(struct file *file,
>
> switch (cmd) {
> case UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP32:
> + pr_warn_once("uvcvideo: " DEPRECATED
> + "UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP32 ioctl will be eventually removed.\n");
> ret = uvc_v4l2_get_xu_mapping(&karg.xmap, up);
> if (ret)
> break;

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart