Hi,
First of this series is based on work done by Helen in 2017 [1], I have
synced with her that it's OK for me to takeover the work.
This series aims to reduce the amount of boiler plate code in video
device drivers who's inputs and/or outputs are controlled by the Media
Controller instead of the V4L2 API.
Patch 1/5 adds a new video device capability flag V4L2_CAP_IO_MC which
if set provides helper implementations for the enum inputs and outputs
ioctrls freeing the video device driver from the need to implement them.
It also adds a default handler for VIDIOC_{G,S}_{INPUT,OUTPUT} as
suggested by Hans in v1. This allows video drivers (disregarding of the
V4L2_CAP_IO_MC flag) to remove callbacks for these operations if they
only provide a single input/output.
Patch 2/5, 3/5, 4/5 and 5/5 converts the R-Car VIN and Intel IPU3
drivers to use the new default handlers and capability flag and delete
the now redundant boiler plate code. I'm sure more video device drivers
can make use of this new flag but as I can only test on these two
platforms I have limited my changes to those.
1. https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/41857/
Niklas Söderlund (5):
v4l2-dev/ioctl: Add V4L2_CAP_IO_MC
rcar-vin: Use default VIDIOC_{G,S}_{INPUT,OUTPUT} handler
staging/intel-ipu3: Use default VIDIOC_{G,S}_{INPUT,OUTPUT} handler
rcar-vin: Make use of V4L2_CAP_IO_MC
staging/intel-ipu3: Make use of V4L2_CAP_IO_MC
.../media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-querycap.rst | 5 ++
.../media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions | 1 +
drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c | 32 +--------
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c | 19 +++--
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++--
drivers/staging/media/ipu3/ipu3-v4l2.c | 60 +---------------
include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 2 +
7 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
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2.24.1
