diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
index 0b879c0da713..e762f911737a 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
@@ -246,20 +246,6 @@ please make a proposal on the linux-media mailing list.
 	It is an opaque intermediate format and the MDP hardware must be
 	used to convert ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21C`` to ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M``,
 	``V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV420M`` or ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_YVU420``.
-    * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-SUNXI-TILED-NV12:
-
-      - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12``
-      - 'ST12'
-      - Two-planar NV12-based format used by the video engine found on Allwinner
-	(codenamed sunxi) platforms, with 32x32 tiles for the luminance plane
-	and 32x64 tiles for the chrominance plane. The data in each tile is
-	stored in linear order, within the tile bounds. Each tile follows the
-	previous one linearly in memory (from left to right, top to bottom).
-
-	The associated buffer dimensions are aligned to match an integer number
-	of tiles, resulting in 32-aligned resolutions for the luminance plane
-	and 16-aligned resolutions for the chrominance plane (with 2x2
-	subsampling).
 
 .. raw:: latex
 
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
index 090c091affd2..edeaf7628b28 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
@@ -254,14 +254,16 @@ of the luma plane.
 
 .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-NV12MT:
 .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-NV12MT-16X16:
+.. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-NV12-32L32:
 
-NV12MT and MV12MT_16X16
------------------------
+Tiled NV12
+----------
 
 Semi-planar YUV 4:2:0 formats, using macroblock tiling. The chroma plane is
 subsampled by 2 in each direction. Chroma lines contain half the number of
 pixels and the same number of bytes as luma lines, and the chroma plane
-contains half the number of lines of the luma plane.
+contains half the number of lines of the luma plane. Each tile follows the
+previous one linearly in memory (from left to right, top to bottom).
 
 ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12MT_16X16`` stores pixel in 2D 16x16 macroblocks, and stores
 macroblocks linearly in memory. The line stride and image height must be
@@ -276,6 +278,11 @@ If the vertical resolution is an odd number of macroblocks, the last row of
 macroblocks is stored in linear order. The layouts of the luma and chroma
 planes are identical.
 
+``V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32`` stores pixel in 32x32 tiles, and stores
+tiles linearly in memory. The line stride and image height must be
+aligned to a multiple of 32. The layouts of the luma and chroma planes are
+identical.
+
 .. _nv12mt:
 
 .. kernel-figure:: nv12mt.svg
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
index 2217b56c2686..982675a2342e 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ replace define V4L2_CAP_IO_MC device-capabilities
 # V4L2 pix flags
 replace define V4L2_PIX_FMT_PRIV_MAGIC :c:type:`v4l2_pix_format`
 replace define V4L2_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PREMUL_ALPHA format-flags
+replace define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12 :c:type:`v4l2_pix_format`
 
 # V4L2 format flags
 replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED fmtdesc-flags
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
index 05d5db3d85e5..ed194e9da7b0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
@@ -1282,6 +1282,7 @@ static void v4l_fill_fmtdesc(struct v4l2_fmtdesc *fmt)
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV61:		descr = "Y/CrCb 4:2:2"; break;
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV24:		descr = "Y/CbCr 4:4:4"; break;
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV42:		descr = "Y/CrCb 4:4:4"; break;
+	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32:   descr = "Y/CbCr 4:2:0 (32x32 Linear)"; break;
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M:	descr = "Y/CbCr 4:2:0 (N-C)"; break;
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV21M:	descr = "Y/CrCb 4:2:0 (N-C)"; break;
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV16M:	descr = "Y/CbCr 4:2:2 (N-C)"; break;
@@ -1415,7 +1416,6 @@ static void v4l_fill_fmtdesc(struct v4l2_fmtdesc *fmt)
 		case V4L2_PIX_FMT_SE401:	descr = "GSPCA SE401"; break;
 		case V4L2_PIX_FMT_S5C_UYVY_JPG:	descr = "S5C73MX interleaved UYVY/JPEG"; break;
 		case V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21C:	descr = "Mediatek Compressed Format"; break;
-		case V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12: descr = "Sunxi Tiled NV12 Format"; break;
 		default:
 			if (fmt->description[0])
 				return;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
index c0d005dafc6c..7dd952a2f280 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static int cedrus_open(struct file *file)
 		ret = PTR_ERR(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
 		goto err_ctrls;
 	}
-	ctx->dst_fmt.pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12;
+	ctx->dst_fmt.pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32;
 	cedrus_prepare_format(&ctx->dst_fmt);
 	ctx->src_fmt.pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2_SLICE;
 	/*
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
index e2f2ff609c7e..2d7663726467 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void cedrus_dst_format_set(struct cedrus_dev *dev,
 		cedrus_write(dev, VE_PRIMARY_FB_LINE_STRIDE, reg);
 
 		break;
-	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12:
+	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32:
 	default:
 		reg = VE_PRIMARY_OUT_FMT_TILED_32_NV12;
 		cedrus_write(dev, VE_PRIMARY_OUT_FMT, reg);
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
index c589fe9dae70..dbc0b2ad598f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static struct cedrus_format cedrus_formats[] = {
 		.capabilities	= CEDRUS_CAPABILITY_VP8_DEC,
 	},
 	{
-		.pixelformat	= V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12,
+		.pixelformat	= V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32,
 		.directions	= CEDRUS_DECODE_DST,
 	},
 	{
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void cedrus_prepare_format(struct v4l2_pix_format *pix_fmt)
 		sizeimage = max_t(u32, SZ_1K, sizeimage);
 		break;
 
-	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12:
+	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32:
 		/* 32-aligned stride. */
 		bytesperline = ALIGN(width, 32);
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
index 9260791b8438..0188cd39468f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
@@ -627,6 +627,9 @@ struct v4l2_pix_format {
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV444M v4l2_fourcc('Y', 'M', '2', '4') /* 24  YUV444 planar */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_YVU444M v4l2_fourcc('Y', 'M', '4', '2') /* 24  YVU444 planar */
 
+/* Tiled YUV formats */
+#define V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32 v4l2_fourcc('S', 'T', '1', '2') /* 12  Y/CbCr 4:2:0 32x32 tiles */
+
 /* Bayer formats - see http://www.siliconimaging.com/RGB%20Bayer.htm */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR8  v4l2_fourcc('B', 'A', '8', '1') /*  8  BGBG.. GRGR.. */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8  v4l2_fourcc('G', 'B', 'R', 'G') /*  8  GBGB.. RGRG.. */
@@ -734,7 +737,6 @@ struct v4l2_pix_format {
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_Z16      v4l2_fourcc('Z', '1', '6', ' ') /* Depth data 16-bit */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21C    v4l2_fourcc('M', 'T', '2', '1') /* Mediatek compressed block mode  */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_INZI     v4l2_fourcc('I', 'N', 'Z', 'I') /* Intel Planar Greyscale 10-bit and Depth 16-bit */
-#define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12 v4l2_fourcc('S', 'T', '1', '2') /* Sunxi Tiled NV12 Format */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_CNF4     v4l2_fourcc('C', 'N', 'F', '4') /* Intel 4-bit packed depth confidence information */
 #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_HI240    v4l2_fourcc('H', 'I', '2', '4') /* BTTV 8-bit dithered RGB */
 
@@ -2615,4 +2617,9 @@ struct v4l2_create_buffers {
 
 #define BASE_VIDIOC_PRIVATE	192		/* 192-255 are private */
 
+/* Deprecated definitions kept for backwards compatibility */
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SUNXI_TILED_NV12 V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_32L32
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _UAPI__LINUX_VIDEODEV2_H */
