Hi Daniel,
Thank you for the patch.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:28:45PM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> To describe in the kernel the connection between devices and their
> supporting peripherals (for example, a camera sensor and the vcm
> driving the focusing lens for it), add a new type of media link
> to introduce the concept of these ancillary links.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <djrscally@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> changes since the rfc:
>
> - Split out into its own patch (mostly so it can be followed by patch
> #3, which corrects some media-core code that is otherwise broken by the
> new links)
>
> include/uapi/linux/media.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media.h b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> index 200fa8462b90..afbae7213d35 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media.h
> @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ struct media_pad_desc {
> #define MEDIA_LNK_FL_LINK_TYPE (0xf << 28)
> # define MEDIA_LNK_FL_DATA_LINK (0 << 28)
> # define MEDIA_LNK_FL_INTERFACE_LINK (1 << 28)
> +# define MEDIA_LNK_FL_ANCILLARY_LINK (2 << 28)
This needs documentation in
Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst and in
media-controller-model.rst. The latter should probably be a bit more
detailed to explain the use cases with at least one example.
>
> struct media_link_desc {
> struct media_pad_desc source;
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
