Re: [PATCH 05/18] [media] media-controller: enable all interface links at init

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Mauro,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sunday 06 September 2015 14:30:48 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Interface links are normally enabled, meaning that the interfaces are
> bound to the entities. So, any ioctl send to the interface are reflected

s/send/sent/

> at the entities managed by the interface.
> 
> However, when a device is usage, other interfaces for the same hardware

s/usage/in use/

> could be decoupled from the entities linked to them, because the
> hardware may have some parts busy.
> 
> That's for example, what happens when an hybrid TV device is in usage.

s/usage/use/

> If it is streaming analog TV or capturing signals from S-Video/Composite
> connectors, typically the digital part of the hardware can't be used and
> vice-versa.
> 
> This is generally due to some internal hardware or firmware limitation,
> that it is not easily mapped via data pipelines.
> 
> What the Kernel drivers do internally is that they decouple the hardware
> from the interface. So, all changes, if allowed, are done only at some
> interface cache, but not physically changed at the hardware.
> 
> The usage is similar to the usage of the MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED on data
> links. So, let's use the same flag to indicate if ether the interface

s/ether/either/

> to entity link is bound/enabled or not.

I believe we'll need to experiment with the interface links to see what's 
really needed there. As a general rule I'd like to avoid exposing too much 
information to userspace without a clear indication that the information is 
actually needed, as it's always easier to expose additional information later 
than to remove information already exposed.

For this reason I'd like to see as a first step how we would do in userspace 
without making those links dynamic. If we then realize that we're lacking 
information we'll decide on the best course of action and on exactly what to 
expose and how to expose it, using concrete userspace use cases.

> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
> b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c index a8e7e2398f7a..5c4fb41060b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
> @@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ static void dvb_register_media_device(struct dvb_device
> *dvbdev, if (!dvbdev->entity || !dvbdev->intf_devnode)
>  		return;
> 
> -	media_create_intf_link(dvbdev->entity, &dvbdev->intf_devnode->intf, 0);
> +	media_create_intf_link(dvbdev->entity, &dvbdev->intf_devnode->intf,
> +			       MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
> 
>  #endif
>  }
> @@ -583,20 +584,24 @@ void dvb_create_media_graph(struct dvb_adapter *adap)
>  	/* Create indirect interface links for FE->tuner, DVR->demux and CA->ca 
*/
> media_device_for_each_intf(intf, mdev) {
>  		if (intf->type == MEDIA_INTF_T_DVB_CA && ca)
> -			media_create_intf_link(ca, intf, 0);
> +			media_create_intf_link(ca, intf, MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
> 
>  		if (intf->type == MEDIA_INTF_T_DVB_FE && tuner)
> -			media_create_intf_link(tuner, intf, 0);
> +			media_create_intf_link(tuner, intf,
> +					       MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
> 
>  		if (intf->type == MEDIA_INTF_T_DVB_DVR && demux)
> -			media_create_intf_link(demux, intf, 0);
> +			media_create_intf_link(demux, intf,
> +					       MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
> 
>  		media_device_for_each_entity(entity, mdev) {
>  			if (entity->type == MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_TSOUT) {
>  				if (!strcmp(entity->name, DVR_TSOUT))
> -					media_create_intf_link(entity, intf, 0);
> +					media_create_intf_link(entity, intf,
> +							       MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
>  				if (!strcmp(entity->name, DEMUX_TSOUT))
> -					media_create_intf_link(entity, intf, 0);
> +					media_create_intf_link(entity, intf,
> +							       MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
>  				break;
>  			}
>  		}
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
> b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c index 07123dd569c4..8429da66754a
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
> @@ -788,7 +788,8 @@ static int video_register_media_controller(struct
> video_device *vdev, int type) struct media_link *link;
> 
>  		link = media_create_intf_link(&vdev->entity,
> -					      &vdev->intf_devnode->intf, 0);
> +					      &vdev->intf_devnode->intf,
> +					      MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
>  		if (!link) {
>  			media_devnode_remove(vdev->intf_devnode);
>  			media_device_unregister_entity(&vdev->entity);
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
> b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c index e788a085ba96..bb58d90fde5e
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ int v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes(struct v4l2_device
> *v4l2_dev)
> 
>  			link = media_create_intf_link(&sd->entity,
>  						      &vdev->intf_devnode->intf,
> -						      0);
> +						      MEDIA_LNK_FL_ENABLED);
>  			if (!link)
>  				goto clean_up;
>  		}

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart