The move to subdev notifiers fixes one assumption of OF graph parsing.
If a subdevice has non-video related ports, the subdev driver knows not
to follow those ports when adding remote devices to its subdev notifier.
Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO | 29 +++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
index 9eb7326..aeeb154 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
@@ -17,29 +17,15 @@
decided whether this feature is useful enough to make it generally
available by exporting to v4l2-core.
-- The OF graph is walked at probe time to form the list of fwnodes to
- be passed to v4l2_async_notifier_register(), starting from the IPU
- CSI ports. And after all async subdevices have been bound,
- v4l2_fwnode_parse_link() is used to form the media links between
- the entities discovered by walking the OF graph.
+- After all async subdevices have been bound, v4l2_fwnode_parse_link()
+ is used to form the media links between the devices discovered in
+ the OF graph.
While this approach allows support for arbitrary OF graphs, there
are some assumptions for this to work:
- 1. All port parent nodes reachable in the graph from the IPU CSI
- ports bind to V4L2 async subdevice drivers.
-
- If a device has mixed-use ports such as video plus audio, the
- endpoints from the audio ports are followed to devices that must
- bind to V4L2 subdevice drivers, and not for example, to an ALSA
- driver or a non-V4L2 media driver. If the device were bound to
- such a driver, imx-media would never get an async completion
- notification because the device fwnode was added to the async
- list, but the driver does not interface with the V4L2 async
- framework.
-
- 2. Every port reachable in the graph is treated as a media pad,
- owned by the V4L2 subdevice that is bound to the port's parent.
+ 1. If a port owned by a device in the graph has endpoint nodes, the
+ port is treated as a media pad.
This presents problems for devices that don't make this port = pad
assumption. Examples are SMIAPP compatible cameras which define only
@@ -54,9 +40,8 @@
possible long-term solution is to implement a subdev API that
maps a port id to a media pad index.
- 3. Every endpoint of a port reachable in the graph is treated as
- a media link, between V4L2 subdevices that are bound to the
- port parents of the local and remote endpoints.
+ 2. Every endpoint of a port owned by a device in the graph is treated
+ as a media link.
Which means a port must not contain mixed-use endpoints, they
must all refer to media links between V4L2 subdevices.
--
2.7.4
