Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] media: imx: Switch to subdev notifiers

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Steve, Sakari,

Any progress on this? The imx7 patch series depends on this so that can't
move forward until this is merged.

Regards,

	Hans

On 21/03/18 01:37, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> This patchset converts the imx-media driver and its dependent
> subdevs to use subdev notifiers.
> 
> There are a couple shortcomings in v4l2-core that prevented
> subdev notifiers from working correctly in imx-media:
> 
> 1. v4l2_async_notifier_fwnode_parse_endpoint() treats a fwnode
>    endpoint that is not connected to a remote device as an error.
>    But in the case of the video-mux subdev, this is not an error,
>    it is OK if some of the mux inputs have no connection. Also,
>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt explicitly
>    states that the 'remote-endpoint' property is optional. So the first
>    patch is a small modification to ignore empty endpoints in
>    v4l2_async_notifier_fwnode_parse_endpoint() and allow
>    __v4l2_async_notifier_parse_fwnode_endpoints() to continue to
>    parse the remaining port endpoints of the device.
> 
> 2. In the imx-media graph, multiple subdevs will encounter the same
>    upstream subdev (such as the imx6-mipi-csi2 receiver), and so
>    v4l2_async_notifier_parse_fwnode_endpoints() will add imx6-mipi-csi2
>    multiple times. This is treated as an error by
>    v4l2_async_notifier_register() later.
> 
>    To get around this problem, add an v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev()
>    which first verifies the provided asd does not already exist in the
>    given notifier asd list or in other registered notifiers. If the asd
>    exists, the function returns -EEXIST and it's up to the caller to
>    decide if that is an error (in imx-media case it is never an error).
> 
>    Patches 2-4 deal with adding that support.
> 
> 3. Patch 5 adds v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev(), which is a
>    convenience function for parsing a subdev's fwnode port endpoints
>    for connected remote subdevs, registering a subdev notifier, and
>    then registering the sub-device itself.
> 
> The remaining patches update the subdev drivers to register a
> subdev notifier with endpoint parsing, and the changes to imx-media
> to support that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> History:
> v3:
> - code optimization in asd_equal(), and remove unneeded braces,
>   suggested by Sakari Ailus.
> - add a NULL asd pointer check to v4l2_async_notifier_asd_valid().
> - fix an error-out path in v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev() that
>   forgot to put device.
> 
> v2:
> - don't pass an empty endpoint to the parse_endpoint callback, 
>   v4l2_async_notifier_fwnode_parse_endpoint() now just ignores them
>   and returns success.
> - Fix a couple compile warnings and errors seen in i386 and sh archs.
> 
> 
> Steve Longerbeam (13):
>   media: v4l2-fwnode: ignore endpoints that have no remote port parent
>   media: v4l2: async: Allow searching for asd of any type
>   media: v4l2: async: Add v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev
>   media: v4l2-fwnode: Switch to v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev
>   media: v4l2-fwnode: Add a convenience function for registering subdevs
>     with notifiers
>   media: platform: video-mux: Register a subdev notifier
>   media: imx: csi: Register a subdev notifier
>   media: imx: mipi csi-2: Register a subdev notifier
>   media: staging/imx: of: Remove recursive graph walk
>   media: staging/imx: Loop through all registered subdevs for media
>     links
>   media: staging/imx: Rename root notifier
>   media: staging/imx: Switch to v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev
>   media: staging/imx: TODO: Remove one assumption about OF graph parsing
> 
>  drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c          |  10 +-
>  drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c                |  36 ++-
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c              | 268 ++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fwnode.c             | 231 +++++++++++--------
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO                    |  29 +--
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c         |  11 +-
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-dev.c         | 134 +++--------
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-internal-sd.c |   5 +-
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-of.c          | 106 +--------
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h             |   6 +-
>  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx6-mipi-csi2.c        |  31 ++-
>  include/media/v4l2-async.h                        |  24 +-
>  include/media/v4l2-fwnode.h                       |  65 +++++-
>  13 files changed, 534 insertions(+), 422 deletions(-)
> 




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