Add a function that checks whether a given open file is a v4l2 device
instance. This will be useful for job queue creation as we are passed a
set of FDs and we need to make this check.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c | 6 ++++++
include/media/v4l2-dev.h | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
index c647ba648805..5a7063886c93 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
@@ -470,6 +470,12 @@ static const struct file_operations v4l2_fops = {
.llseek = no_llseek,
};
+bool v4l2_is_v4l2_file(struct file *filp)
+{
+ return filp->f_op == &v4l2_fops;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(v4l2_is_v4l2_file);
+
/**
* get_index - assign stream index number based on v4l2_dev
* @vdev: video_device to assign index number to, vdev->v4l2_dev should be assigned
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
index e657614521e3..b73d646980da 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
@@ -395,6 +395,15 @@ void video_device_release(struct video_device *vdev);
*/
void video_device_release_empty(struct video_device *vdev);
+/**
+ * v4l2_is_v4l2_file - Check whether a file describes a V4L2 device
+ *
+ * @filp: opened file to check
+ *
+ * Returns true of the file is a V4L2 device, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool v4l2_is_v4l2_file(struct file *filp);
+
/**
* v4l2_is_known_ioctl - Checks if a given cmd is a known V4L ioctl
*
--
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