On 10/03/17 05:52, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> Add a NEW_FRAME_BEFORE_EOF event to signal that a video capture or
> output device has signaled a new frame is ready before a previous
> frame has completed reception or transmission. This usually indicates
> a DMA read/write channel is having trouble gaining bus access.
This too is a weird event. Based on what you describe this basically means
that the previous frame is incomplete, in which case you would typically
return the buffer with the V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR bit set.
Using an event for this is not a good idea.
Regards,
Hans
> Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.rst | 6 ++++++
> Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.rst
> index dc77363..54bc7ae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.rst
> @@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ call.
> has measured an interval between the reception or transmit
> completion of two consecutive frames of video that is outside
> the nominal frame interval by some tolerance value.
> + * - ``V4L2_EVENT_NEW_FRAME_BEFORE_EOF``
> + - 8
> + - This event is triggered when the video capture or output device
> + has signaled a new frame is ready before a previous frame has
> + completed reception or transmission. This usually indicates a
> + DMA read/write channel is having trouble gaining bus access.
> * - ``V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START``
> - 0x08000000
> - Base event number for driver-private events.
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
> index c7d8fad..be6f332 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
> +++ b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
> @@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ replace define V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC event-type
> replace define V4L2_EVENT_SOURCE_CHANGE event-type
> replace define V4L2_EVENT_MOTION_DET event-type
> replace define V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_INTERVAL_ERROR event-type
> +replace define V4L2_EVENT_NEW_FRAME_BEFORE_EOF event-type
> replace define V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START event-type
>
> replace define V4L2_EVENT_CTRL_CH_VALUE ctrl-changes-flags
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> index cf5a0d0..f54a82a 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> @@ -2132,6 +2132,7 @@ struct v4l2_streamparm {
> #define V4L2_EVENT_SOURCE_CHANGE 5
> #define V4L2_EVENT_MOTION_DET 6
> #define V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_INTERVAL_ERROR 7
> +#define V4L2_EVENT_NEW_FRAME_BEFORE_EOF 8
> #define V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START 0x08000000
>
> /* Payload for V4L2_EVENT_VSYNC */
>
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