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From: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
To: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/06] soc_camera: Move spinlocks
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:36:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487B486A.7040403@teltonika.lt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807141427140.11348@axis700.grange>

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
>> This patch moves the spinlock handling from soc_camera.c to the actual
>> camera host driver. The spinlock alloc/free callbacks are replaced with
>> code in init_videobuf().
> 
> As merits of this move were not quite obvious to me (you lose the 
> possibility to use default lock allocation / freeing in soc_camera.c), I 
> extended your comment as follows:
> 
> This patch moves the spinlock handling from soc_camera.c to the actual
> camera host driver. The spinlock_alloc/free callbacks are replaced with
> code in init_videobuf(). So far all camera host drivers implement their
> own spinlock_alloc/free methods anyway, and videobuf_queue_core_init()
> BUGs on a NULL spinlock argument, so, new camera host drivers will not
> forget to provide a spinlock when initialising their videobug queues.
                                                        videobuf
                                                               ^

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 12:02 [PATCH 00/06] soc_camera: SuperH Mobile CEU patches V3 Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 01/06] soc_camera: Move spinlocks Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:31   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-07-14 12:36     ` Paulius Zaleckas [this message]
2008-07-14 12:43       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-07-15  8:23     ` Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 02/06] soc_camera: Add 16-bit bus width support Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 03/06] videobuf: Fix gather spelling Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 04/06] videobuf: Add physically contiguous queue code V3 Magnus Damm
2008-07-14 12:20   ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 05/06] sh_mobile_ceu_camera: Add SuperH Mobile CEU driver V3 Magnus Damm
2008-07-18  7:39   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-07-18  8:07     ` Magnus Damm
2008-07-18  8:23       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
     [not found]         ` <20080718214644.GB21846@linux-sh.org>
2008-07-18 22:14           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
     [not found]             ` <20080718222713.GA18822@linux-sh.org>
2008-07-18 22:48               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-07-14 12:02 ` [PATCH 06/06] soc_camera_platform: Add SoC Camera Platform driver Magnus Damm
2008-07-18  7:40 ` [PATCH 00/06] soc_camera: SuperH Mobile CEU patches V3 Guennadi Liakhovetski

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