Re: [PATCH 1/2] [media] v4l: allow to register dev nodes for individual v4l2 subdevs

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hi Sakari,

On 9/17/18 6:46 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 01:30:17PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Currently there's only a function to register device nodes for all subdevs
>> of a v4l2 device that are marked with the V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE flag.
>>
>> But drivers may want to register device nodes for individual subdevices,
>> so add a v4l2_device_register_subdev_node() for this purpose.
>>
>> A use case for this function is for media device drivers to register the
>> device nodes in the v4l2 async notifier .bound callback instead of doing
>> a registration for all subdevices in the .complete callback.
> 
> Thanks for the set.
> 
> I've been doing some work to add events to MC; with Hans's property API
> set, assuming it could be used to tell the registration is complete, we
> have all bits for a complete solution.
>

Great.
 
> As the driver is buggy and fails to work correctly in the case if not every
> sub-devices probes successfully, I see no reason to postpone applying the
> two patches now.
>

Yes, agreed.
 
> One more comment below. (No need to resend just for that IMO.)
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>

[snip]

>>  
>> +/**
>> + * v4l2_device_register_subdev_node - Registers a device node for a subdev
>> + *	of the v4l2 device.
>> + *
>> + * @v4l2_dev: pointer to struct v4l2_device
> 
> struct -> &struct
>

Thanks, I'm not well versed in kernel-doc / Sphinx markup syntax so I missed it.

BTW, I copied from another place in include/media/v4l2-device.h, and now I
notice that it has a mix of "&struct foo", "struct &foo" and "struct foo".

It would be nice to fix this so cross-reference works properly in all cases.
 
>> + * @sd: pointer to &struct v4l2_subdev
>> + */
>> +int __must_check v4l2_device_register_subdev_node(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev,
>> +						  struct v4l2_subdev *sd);
>> +
>>  /**
>>   * v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes - Registers device nodes for all subdevs
>>   *	of the v4l2 device that are marked with
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat