Document that after unregistering, Media device memory resources are released by the release() callback rather than by calling media_device_cleanup(). Also add that driver memory resources should be bound to the Media device, not V4L2 device. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- include/media/media-device.h | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst index 2456950ce8ff..346f67760671 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst @@ -46,13 +46,27 @@ Drivers initialise media device instances by calling :c:func:`media_device_init()`. After initialising a media device instance, it is registered by calling :c:func:`__media_device_register()` via the macro ``media_device_register()`` and unregistered by calling -:c:func:`media_device_unregister()`. An initialised media device must be -eventually cleaned up by calling :c:func:`media_device_cleanup()`. +:c:func:`media_device_unregister()`. The resources of an unregistered media +device will be released by the ``release()`` callback of :c:type:`media_device` +ops, which will be called when the last user of the media device has released it +calling :c:func:`media_device_put()`. + +The ``release()`` callback is the way all the resources of the media device are +released once :c:func:`media_device_init()` has been called. This is also +relevant during device driver's probe function as the ``release()`` callback +will also have to be able to safely release the resources related to a partially +initialised media device. Note that it is not allowed to unregister a media device instance that was not previously registered, or clean up a media device instance that was not previously initialised. +Media device and driver's per-device context +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Drivers should use the struct media_device_ops ``release()`` callback to release +their own resources and not e.g. that of the struct v4l2_device. + Entities ^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/include/media/media-device.h b/include/media/media-device.h index c6816be0eee8..98e1892f1b51 100644 --- a/include/media/media-device.h +++ b/include/media/media-device.h @@ -250,8 +250,10 @@ void media_device_init(struct media_device *mdev); * * @mdev: pointer to struct &media_device * - * This function that will destroy the graph_mutex that is - * initialized in media_device_init(). + * This function that will destroy the graph_mutex that is initialized in + * media_device_init(). Note that *only* drivers that do not manage releasing + * the memory of th media device itself call this function. This function is + * thus effectively DEPRECATED. */ void media_device_cleanup(struct media_device *mdev); -- 2.39.2
