Re: [PATCH 02/22] [media] v4l2-async: allow subdevices to add further subdevices to the notifier waiting list

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Hi Philipp,

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:00:47PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Currently the v4l2_async_notifier needs to be given a list of matches
> for all expected subdevices on creation. When chaining subdevices that
> are asynchronously probed via device tree, the bridge device that sets
> up the notifier does not know the complete list of subdevices, as it
> can only parse its own device tree node to obtain information about
> the nearest neighbor subdevices.
> To support indirectly connected subdevices, we need to support amending
> the existing notifier waiting list with newly found neighbor subdevices
> with each registered subdevice.

Could you elaborate a little what's the exact use case for this? What kind
of a device?

Thanks.

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Sakari Ailus
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