[PATCH v3 17/17] media: imx: TODO: Remove media link creation todos

From: Steve Longerbeam
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 18:50:07 EST


Remove the TODO items regarding media link creation, these issues are
resolved by moving media link creation to individual entity bound
callbacks and the implementation of the get_fwnode_pad operation.

Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO | 29 -----------------------------
1 file changed, 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
index 6f29b5ca5324..a371cdedcdb0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
@@ -17,35 +17,6 @@
decided whether this feature is useful enough to make it generally
available by exporting to v4l2-core.

-- After all async subdevices have been bound, v4l2_fwnode_parse_link()
- is used to form the media links between the devices discovered in
- the OF graph.
-
- While this approach allows support for arbitrary OF graphs, there
- are some assumptions for this to work:
-
- 1. If a port owned by a device in the graph has endpoint nodes, the
- port is treated as a media pad.
-
- This presents problems for devices that don't make this port = pad
- assumption. Examples are SMIAPP compatible cameras which define only
- a single output port node, but which define multiple pads owned
- by multiple subdevices (pixel-array, binner, scaler). Or video
- decoders (entity function MEDIA_ENT_F_ATV_DECODER), which also define
- only a single output port node, but define multiple pads for video,
- VBI, and audio out.
-
- A workaround at present is to set the port reg properties to
- correspond to the media pad index that the port represents. A
- possible long-term solution is to implement a subdev API that
- maps a port id to a media pad index.
-
- 2. Every endpoint of a port owned by a device in the graph is treated
- as a media link.
-
- Which means a port must not contain mixed-use endpoints, they
- must all refer to media links between V4L2 subdevices.
-
- i.MX7: all of the above, since it uses the imx media core

- i.MX7: use Frame Interval Monitor
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