Hello,
This patch series adds a type field to the media entity structure. It is a
resend of v3 rebased on top of the latest media master branch, with acks
collected and spelling mistakes fixed. I have dropped patches 5 to 7 as they
don't depend on 1-4 and Hans would like to get them merged through his tree,
and patch 8 as is adds a function that currently has no user.
Let's start with a few words about what types are and are not. The purpose of
the entity type is to identify the object type that implements the entity, in
order to safely cast the entity to that object (using container_of()). Three
types are currently defined, for media entities that are instantiated as such
(MEDIA_ENTITY_TYPE_MEDIA_ENTITY), embedded in a struct video_device
(MEDIA_ENTITY_TYPE_VIDEO_DEVICE) or embedded in a struct v4l2_subdev
(MEDIA_ENTITY_TYPE_V4L2_SUBDEV). The naming is pretty straightforward and
self-explicit.
Types do not convey any additional information. They don't tell anything about
the features of the entity or the object that implements it. In particular
they don't report capabilities of video_device instances, which is why the
is_media_entity_v4l2_io() function performs additional checks on the video
device capabilities field, after verifying with the type that it can safely be
cast to a video_device instance.
The series start by two cleanup patches (1/8 and 2/8) that fix incorrect or
unneeded usage of the is_media_entity_v4l2_*() functions in the vsp1 and
exynos4-is drivers. Patch 3/8 then adds the type field to the media_entity
structure and updates the is_media_entity_v4l2_*() functions implementations.
Patch 4/8 renames is_media_entity_v4l2_io() to
is_media_entity_v4l2_video_device() to clarify its purpose.
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
Laurent Pinchart (4):
v4l: vsp1: Check if an entity is a subdev with the right function
v4l: exynos4-is: Drop unneeded check when setting up fimc-lite links
media: Add type field to struct media_entity
media: Rename is_media_entity_v4l2_io to
is_media_entity_v4l2_video_device
drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-lite.c | 12 +---
drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/media-dev.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispvideo.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_video.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c | 1 +
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c | 1 +
drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c | 2 +-
drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss_video.c | 2 +-
include/media/media-entity.h | 77 +++++++++++++------------
10 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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