Hi, On 06/11/2012 09:59 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
This is an automatic generated email to let you know that the following patch were queued at the http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git tree: Subject: libv4l: Move dev ops to libv4lconvert Author: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 11 21:59:25 2012 +0200 As discussed with Hans de Goede, this patch moves the plugin dev-ops structure to libv4lconvert. It was also renamed to libv4l_dev_ops. As a positive side effect we restored SONAME compatibility with the 0.8.x releases.
Nice, good work! So I guess it is about time for a 0.10 release? Before doing a 0.10 release I would like to revisit the plugin API and mmap issue though. I've made a 180 wrt my opinion on this, and I think it would be good to have mmap in the plugin API to allow plugins to intercept it if they want (so that we can do ie a an IEEE1394 converter plugin like http://dv4l.berlios.de/) The mmap callbacks would be optional, so a not interested plugin does not need to worry about them. Here is what I wrote on this before: The problem with mmap is that we've 3 kinds of mmap buffers: 1) Real mmap-ed device buffers, used directly by the app in the no conversion path. 2) Faked mmap-ed device buffers, seen by the app when doing conversion, this is basically convert_mmap_buf, IMHO if we add mmap plugin ops, the mmap / munmap of convert_mmap_buf should not go through it, is is basically just a malloc/free, but done through mmap to make sure we get the right alignment, etc. 3) memory not managed by v4l at all, this happens only in the munmap call, when used in combination with LD_PRELOAD note that currently in v4l2_munmap, the code paths for 1 & 3 are the same. If we allow plugins to intercept the munmap call (and make no further changes) then the plugin will get the munmap call and if the memory is not owned by the plugin it should do a SYS_MUNMAP instead!! So if we keep using the real mmap / munmap for the fake buffers (2), then the only problem is that when used with LD_PRELOAD (ie skype), the plugin can get munmap calls for memory it never returned from mmap. I suggest we document this, as well as that in this case the plugin should forward the call to SYS_MUNMAP. Regards, Hans -- 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
