Re: [PATCH] media: platform: video-mux: Fix mutex locking

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Hi Laurent,

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 06:56:03PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 05:48:28PM +0200, Paul Elder wrote:
> > The current order of locking between the driver mutex and the v4l2
> > subdev state lock causes a circuluar locking dependency when trying to
> > set up a link. Fix this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This being said, I think we should deprecate the video-mux driver and
> implement a driver that uses the V4L2 subdev internal routing API
> instead of basing the routing configuration on link setup. Any opinion ?

Sounds good to me. But do we need a new driver? The subdev client streams
capability flag should help here, just as it does on other drivers.

I applied this one, with spelling fixed in the commit message.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus




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