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2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls/v4l2-events: small coding style cleanupsHans Verkuil
Thanks to Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: improve discovery of controls of the same clusterHans Verkuil
The implementation of VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS in the control framework has to figure out which controls in the control list belong to the same cluster. Since controls belonging to the same cluster need to be handled as a unit, this is important information. It did that by going over the controls in the list and for each control that belonged to a multi-control cluster it would walk the remainder of the list to try and find controls that belong to that same cluster. This approach has two disadvantages: 1) it was a potentially quadratic algorithm (although highly unlikely that it would ever be that bad in practice). 2) it took place with the control handler's lock held. Since we want to make it possible in the future to change control values from interrupt context, doing a lot of work while holding a lock is not a good idea. In the new code the algorithm is no longer quadratic but linear in the number of controls in the list. Also, it now can be done beforehand. Another change that was made was to so the try and set at the same time. Before when S_TRY_EXT_CTRLS was called it would 'try' the controls first, and then it would 'set' them. The idea was that any 'try' errors would prevent the 'set' from happening, thus avoiding having partially set control lists. However, this caused more problems than it solved because between the 'try' and the 'set' changes might have happened, so it had to try a second time, and since actual controls with a try_ctrl op are very rare (and those that we have just adjust values and do not return an error), I've decided to drop that two-stage approach and just combine try and set. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-event/ctrls/fh: allocate events per fh and per type instead of ↵Hans Verkuil
just per-fh The driver had to decide how many events to allocate when the v4l2_fh struct was created. It was possible to add more events afterwards, but there was no way to ensure that you wouldn't miss important events if the event queue would fill up for that filehandle. In addition, once there were no more free events, any new events were simply dropped on the floor. For the control event in particular this made life very difficult since control status/value changes could just be missed if the number of allocated events and the speed at which the application read events was too low to keep up with the number of generated events. The application would have no idea what the latest state was for a control since it could have missed the latest control change. So this patch makes some major changes in how events are allocated. Instead of allocating events per-filehandle they are now allocated when subscribing an event. So for that particular event type N events (determined by the driver) are allocated. Those events are reserved for that particular event type. This ensures that you will not miss events for a particular type altogether. In addition, if there are N events in use and a new event is raised, then the oldest event is dropped and the new one is added. So the latest event is always available. This can be further improved by adding the ability to merge the state of two events together, ensuring that no data is lost at all. This will be added in the next patch. This also makes it possible to allow the user to determine the number of events that will be allocated. This is not implemented at the moment, but would be trivial. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls/event: remove struct v4l2_ctrl_fh, instead use ↵Hans Verkuil
v4l2_subscribed_event The v4l2_ctrl_fh struct connected v4l2_ctrl with v4l2_fh so the control would know which filehandles subscribed to it. However, it is much easier to use struct v4l2_subscribed_event directly for that and get rid of that intermediate struct. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: make manual_mode_value 8 bits and check against control ↵Hans Verkuil
range Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: simplify event subscriptionHans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: add control eventsHans Verkuil
Whenever a control changes value or state an event is sent to anyone that subscribed to it. This functionality is useful for control panels but also for applications that need to wait for (usually status) controls to change value. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: add v4l2_fh pointer to the set control functionsHans Verkuil
When an application changes a control you want to generate an event. However, you want to avoid sending such an event back to the application (file handle) that caused the change. Add the filehandle to the various set control functions. The filehandle isn't used yet, but the control event patches will need this. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-27[media] v4l2-ctrls: add v4l2_ctrl_auto_cluster to simplify autogain/gain ↵Hans Verkuil
scenarios It is a bit tricky to handle autogain/gain type scenerios correctly. Such controls need to be clustered and the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_UPDATE should be set on the autofoo controls. In addition, the manual controls should be marked inactive when the automatic mode is on, and active when the manual mode is on. This also requires specialized volatile handling. The chances of drivers doing all these things correctly are pretty remote. So a new v4l2_ctrl_auto_cluster function was added that takes care of these issues. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-01-19[media] v4l: Include linux/videodev2.h in media/v4l2-ctrls.hLaurent Pinchart
The later makes extensive use of structures defined in the former. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-01-19[media] v4l2-ctrls: v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup must set is_new to 1Hans Verkuil
Renamed has_new to is_new. Drivers can use the is_new field to determine if a new value was specified for a control. The v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup() must always set this to 1 since the setup has to force a full update of all controls. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-30[media] v4l2-ctrls: use const char * const * for the menu arraysHans Verkuil
This prevents checkpatch warnings generated when defining 'static const char *foo[]' arrays. It makes sense to use const char * const * anyway since the pointers in the array are indeed const. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-08-08V4L/DVB: v4l2: Add new control handling frameworkHans Verkuil
Add a new framework to handle controls which makes life for driver developers much easier. Note that this patch moves some of the control support that used to be in v4l2-common.c to v4l2-ctrls.c. The tables were copied unchanged. The body of v4l2_ctrl_query_fill() was copied to a new v4l2_ctrl_fill() function in v4l2-ctrls.c. This new function doesn't use the v4l2_queryctrl struct anymore, which makes it more general. The remainder of v4l2-ctrls.c is all new. Highlights include: - No need to implement VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL, QUERYMENU, S_CTRL, G_CTRL, S_EXT_CTRLS, G_EXT_CTRLS or TRY_EXT_CTRLS in either bridge drivers or subdevs. New wrapper functions are provided that can just be plugged in. Once everything has been converted these wrapper functions can be removed as well. - When subdevices are added their controls can be automatically merged with the bridge driver's controls. - Most drivers just need to implement s_ctrl to set the controls. The framework handles the locking and tries to be as 'atomic' as possible. - Ready for the subdev device nodes: the same mechanism applies to subdevs and their device nodes as well. Sub-device drivers can make controls local, preventing them from being merged with bridge drivers. - Takes care of backwards compatibility handling of VIDIOC_S_CTRL and VIDIOC_G_CTRL. Handling of V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE is fully transparent. CTRL_CLASS controls are automatically added. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>