Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 02/17] media: v4l2-fwnode: Pass notifier to v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev()

From: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 02/17] media: v4l2-fwnode: Pass notifier to v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev()
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:50:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33258045-b708-1390-06e0-fde224296dfb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200225150721.GO5379@paasikivi.fi.intel.com>

Hi Sakari,

Thanks for the feedback.

On 2/25/20 7:07 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:41:21AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>> Instead of allocating a notifier in v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev(),
>> have the caller provide one. This allows the caller to implement
>> notifier ops (bind, unbind).
>>
>> The caller is now responsible for first initializing its notifier with a
>> call to v4l2_async_notifier_init().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com>
> Instead of improving v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev(), could you convert
> the users (IMX driver in this case) to call the preferred APIs instead?

I presume you mean using v4l2_async_notifier_add_fwnode_remote_subdev(). 
Ok, I'll convert to use that API.

Steve

>   As
> the lines below show, v4l2_async_register_fwnode_subdev() has only two
> users left --- the other one of which is the IMX driver. After converting
> these two, we could just remove this API.
>
> See e.g. drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c and
> drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c for examples.
>
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - added the missing calls to unregister/cleanup the new subdev notifiers.
>>    Reported by Rui Silva.
>> ---
>>   drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c         |  8 +++++++-
>>   drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fwnode.c      | 11 +----------
>>   drivers/staging/media/imx/imx6-mipi-csi2.c |  7 ++++++-
>>   drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c |  7 ++++++-
>>   drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-mipi-csis.c |  9 ++++++++-
>>   include/media/v4l2-fwnode.h                | 12 ++++++++----
>>   6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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