From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> The vb2_poll function would start read-DMA if called without any streaming in progress. This unfortunately does not work if the application just wants to poll for exceptions. This information of what the application is polling for is sadly unavailable in the driver. Andy Walls suggested to just return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM and let the first call to read() start the DMA. This initial read() call will return EAGAIN since no actual data is available yet, but it does start the DMA. Applications must handle EAGAIN in any case since there can be other reasons for EAGAIN as well. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/video/videobuf2-core.c | 17 +++-------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/video/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/video/videobuf2-core.c index 6ba1461..ad75c95 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/videobuf2-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/videobuf2-core.c @@ -1372,27 +1372,16 @@ static int __vb2_cleanup_fileio(struct vb2_queue *q); unsigned int vb2_poll(struct vb2_queue *q, struct file *file, poll_table *wait) { unsigned long flags; - unsigned int ret; struct vb2_buffer *vb = NULL; /* * Start file I/O emulator only if streaming API has not been used yet. */ if (q->num_buffers == 0 && q->fileio == NULL) { - if (!V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(q->type) && (q->io_modes & VB2_READ)) { - ret = __vb2_init_fileio(q, 1); - if (ret) - return POLLERR; - } - if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(q->type) && (q->io_modes & VB2_WRITE)) { - ret = __vb2_init_fileio(q, 0); - if (ret) - return POLLERR; - /* - * Write to OUTPUT queue can be done immediately. - */ + if (!V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(q->type) && (q->io_modes & VB2_READ)) + return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM; + if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(q->type) && (q->io_modes & VB2_WRITE)) return POLLOUT | POLLWRNORM; - } } /* -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html