Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] media: uvcvideo: Ignore empty TS packets

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (23/03/09 13:55), Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> Some SunplusIT cameras took a borderline interpretation of the UVC 1.5
> standard, and fill the PTS and SCR fields with invalid data if the
> package does not contain data.
> 
> "STC must be captured when the first video data of a video frame is put
> on the USB bus."
> 
> Eg:
> 
> buffer: 0xa7755c00 len 000012 header:0x8c stc 00000000 sof 0000 pts 00000000
> buffer: 0xa7755c00 len 000012 header:0x8c stc 00000000 sof 0000 pts 00000000
> buffer: 0xa7755c00 len 000668 header:0x8c stc 73779dba sof 070c pts 7376d37a
> 
> This borderline/buggy interpretation has been implemented in a variety
> of devices, from directly SunplusIT and from other OEMs that rebrand
> SunplusIT products. So quirking based on VID:PID will be problematic.
> 
> All the affected modules have the following extension unit:
> VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
>   guidExtensionCode         {82066163-7050-ab49-b8cc-b3855e8d221d}
> 
> But the vendor plans to use that GUID in the future and fix the bug,
> this means that we should use heuristic to figure out the broken
> packets.
> 
> This patch takes care of this.
> 
> lsusb of one of the affected cameras:
> 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2a01 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
> Device Descriptor:
>   bLength                18
>   bDescriptorType         1
>   bcdUSB               2.01
>   bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
>   bDeviceSubClass         2 ?
>   bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
>   bMaxPacketSize0        64
>   idVendor           0x1bcf Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
>   idProduct          0x2a01
>   bcdDevice            0.02
>   iManufacturer           1 SunplusIT Inc
>   iProduct                2 HanChen Wise Camera
>   iSerial                 3 01.00.00
>   bNumConfigurations      1
> 
> Tested-by: HungNien Chen <hn.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[..]
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * STC (Source Time Clock) is the clock used by the camera. The UVC 1.5
> +	 * standard states that it "must be captured when the first video data
> +	 * of a video frame is put on the USB bus".
> +	 * Most of the vendors, clear the `UVC_STREAM_SCR` bit when the data is
> +	 * not valid, other vendors always set the `UVC_STREAM_SCR` bit and
> +	 * expect that the driver only samples the stc if there is data on the
> +	 * packet.
> +	 * Ignore all the hardware timestamp information if there is no data
> +	 * and stc and sof are zero.
> +	 */
[..]

Thanks!