On 08/01/18 17:55, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > At PC consumer devices, it is very common that the bridge same driver > to be attached to different types of tuners and demods. We need a way > for the Kernel to properly identify what kind of signal is provided by each > PAD, in order to properly setup the pipelines. > > The previous approach were to hardcode a fixed number of PADs for all > elements of the same type. This is not good, as different devices may > actually have a different number of pads. > > It was acceptable in the past, as there were a promisse of adding "soon" > a properties API that would allow to identify the type for each PADs, but > this was never merged (or even a patchset got submitted). > > So, replace this approach by another one: add a "taint" mark to pads that > contain different types of signals. > > I tried to minimize the number of signals, in order to make it simpler to > convert from the past way. > > For now, it is tested only with a simple grabber device. I intend to do > more tests before merging it, but it would be interesting to have this > merged for Kernel 4.19, as we'll now be exposing the pad index via > the MC API version 2. Other than a small comment for the last patch I didn't see anything problematical in this series. It doesn't touch on the public API or on any of the non-tuner drivers. So for patches 1-12: Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> And after adding back the documentation for the enums in patch 13 you can add my Ack to that one as well. Regards, Hans > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (13): > media: v4l2: remove VBI output pad > media: v4l2: taint pads with the signal types for consumer devices > v4l2-mc: switch it to use the new approach to setup pipelines > media: dvb: use signals to discover pads > media: au0828: use signals instead of hardcoding a pad number > media: au8522: declare its own pads > media: msp3400: declare its own pads > media: saa7115: declare its own pads > media: tvp5150: declare its own pads > media: si2157: declare its own pads > media: saa7134: declare its own pads > media: mxl111sf: declare its own pads > media: v4l2-mc: get rid of global pad indexes > > drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 19 +++-- > drivers/media/dvb-frontends/au8522_decoder.c | 10 ++- > drivers/media/dvb-frontends/au8522_priv.h | 9 ++- > drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-driver.c | 6 +- > drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-driver.h | 8 +- > drivers/media/i2c/saa7115.c | 18 +++-- > drivers/media/i2c/tvp5150.c | 21 ++++-- > drivers/media/media-entity.c | 26 +++++++ > drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-core.c | 9 ++- > drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134.h | 8 +- > drivers/media/tuners/si2157.c | 11 ++- > drivers/media/tuners/si2157_priv.h | 9 ++- > drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 12 +-- > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c | 8 +- > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.h | 8 +- > drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner-core.c | 18 +++++ > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c | 73 +++++++++++++----- > include/media/media-entity.h | 54 ++++++++++++++ > include/media/v4l2-mc.h | 78 -------------------- > 19 files changed, 266 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-) >
