Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] media: uvcvideo: Implement the Privacy GPIO as a subdevice

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Ricardo,

On 10-Nov-24 5:04 PM, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 16:14, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

>>> Can we start powering up the device during try/set fmt and then
>>> implement the format caching as an improvement?
>>
>> This sounds worth trying. We'll need to test it on a wide range of
>> devices though, both internal and external.

Ack, as mentioned in the other mail which I just send I think
this is worth trying.

> We still need a plan for asynchronous controls.

As I mentioned in that other email I think we can do the same there.

So basically delay powering up the camera from /dev/video# open till
the first moment we actually need to communicate to the camera and
track per file-handle if we did a usb_autopm_get_interface() for
that file-handle and if yes, then do the put-interface on file-handle
close.

> And we have to decide if we stop supporting the uvc button (maybe we
> can start by moving USB_VIDEO_CLASS_INPUT_EVDEV to staging and see
> what happens?)

As I mentioned in other threads I do not think that the button
only working changing from:

"only works when /dev/video# is open"

to:

"only works when streaming from /dev/video#"

(or actually only works when some action on the camera which
requires it to be powered-on has been done).

is a big deal, since most apps which open /dev/video# for
a longer time will almost always do so to actually do something
with the camera, at which point the button will work just as
before.

And for apps which only do a short-lived open of /dev/video#
the button does not work with the current code either.

TL;DR: IMHO it is fine if the button only works when streaming.

Regards,

Hans