Re: [PATCH 2/3] media: omap3isp: ispvideo: drop driver specific isp_video_fh

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Hi Laurent,

Thanks for the review.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Monday 23 February 2015 20:19:32 Lad Prabhakar wrote:
>> From: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> this patch drops driver specific isp_video_fh, as this
>> can be handled by core.
>
> I'm afraid it's not that simple.
>
> The omap3isp driver stores video queues per file handle for a reason. This was
> design to permit creating a high-resolution still image capture queue and
> prepare buffers ahead of time, to avoid the large delay due to cache
> management as prepare time when taking the snapshot.
>
Ah I see the reason.

> Now this use case has been partially solved by VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS, but we're
> still missing a VIDIOC_DESTROY_BUFS to make it work completely. That needs to
> be solved first.
>
I haven't used the VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS ioctl so far in any of the apps
so cant comment
much on this.
But isn't that obvious we need VIDIOC_DESTROY_BUFS or is there any backdoor
to destroy them that I am missing ?

Regards,
--Prabhakar Lad

>> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispvideo.c | 128  ++++++++++---------------
>>  drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispvideo.h |  13 +--
>>  2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
>
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