Laurent, > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-media-ow...@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-media-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of > Laurent Pinchart > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:39 PM > To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org > Cc: hverk...@xs4all.nl; mche...@infradead.org; > sakari.ai...@maxwell.research.nokia.com > Subject: [PATCH/RFC] V4L core cleanups > > Hi everybody, > > this patch sets attemp to clean up the V4L core to remove the > video_device::minor and video_device::num references in most drivers.
I think you're missing usual subject prefix: [PATCH #/total] Unless all patches are independent from eachother, which is something I'll hardly believe. Regards, Sergio > > There are two reasons for this. The first one is that drivers really > shouldn't care about those fields, especially the minor number. This > doesn't mean a driver can't request a specific device number, that > remains a perfectly valid use case, but most use cases of those fields > after device registration shouldn't be needed. > > The second reason is that most drivers use those fields in bogus ways, > making it obvious they shouldn't have cared about them in the first > place :-) We've had a video_drvdata function for a long time, but many > drivers still have their own private minor -> data mapping lists for > historical reasons. That code is error prone and completely unneeded. > > So this patch sets tries to clean up the V4L core by porting > drivers to > the most "recent" APIs (which are actually quite old) and > introducing a > new helper function. > > The first two patches add and use the video_device_node_name function. > The function returns a const pointer to the video device name. On > systems using udev, the name is passed as a hint to udev and > will likely > become the /dev device node name, unless overwritten by udev > rules (I've > heard that some distributions put the V4L device nodes in /dev/v4l). > Some drivers erroneously created the name from the video_device::minor > field instead of video_device::num, which is fixed by the > second patch. > > This is an example video_device_node_name usage typical from > what can be > found in the second patch. > > - printk(KERN_INFO "bttv%d: registered device radio%d\n", > - btv->c.nr, btv->radio_dev->num); > + printk(KERN_INFO "bttv%d: registered device %s\n", > + btv->c.nr, video_device_node_name(btv->radio_dev)); > > The third patch removes left video_device::num usage from the drivers. > The field was used to create information strings that > shouldn't include > the device node name (such as video_device::name) or that should be > created using a stable identifier (such as i2c_adapter::name). > > The fourth, fifth and sixth patches replace video_is_unregistered with > video_is_registered and use the new function in device drivers. As > explained in the fourth patch commit message, the rationale > behind that > is to have video_is_registered return false when called on an > initialized but not yet registered video_device instance. The function > can be used instead of checking video_device::minor manually, > making it > less error-prone as drivers don't need to make sure they > video_device::minor to -1 correctly for all error paths. > > A typical use case is > > - if (-1 != dev->radio_dev->minor) > + if (video_is_registered(dev->radio_dev)) > video_unregister_device(dev->radio_dev); > else > video_device_release(dev->radio_dev); > > The seventh patch replace local minor to data lists by > video_drvdata(). > The function has been there for a long time but wasn't used by many > drivers, probably because they were written before it was > available, or, > for some of them, because they were written based on drivers that were > not using it. This patch removes lots of identical unneeded > code blocks, > making the result less bug-prone. > > The eight patch removes now unneeded video_device::minor > assignments to > -1, as the previous patches made them unneeded. > > The last patch removes a few more video_device::minor users. As > explained in the patch description, the field was used either to > > - test for error conditions that can't happen anymore with the current > v4l-dvb core, > - store the value in a driver private field that isn't used anymore, > - check the video device type where video_device::vfl_type should be > used, or > - create the name of a kernel thread that should get a stable name. > > There are still two video_device::num users and those can easily be > removed. Hans Verkuil is working on a patch, as one of the drivers is > the ivtv driver and the other one is based on the same code. > > There are also still a few video_device::minor users. One of them is > the pvrusb2 driver that creates sysfs attributes storing the minor > numbers of the device nodes created by the driver. I'm not > sure what to > do about that one. All the others are V4L1 drivers that need the minor > number for the VIDIOCGUNIT ioctl. Hopefully that will die when the > drivers will be ported to V4L2 :-) > > I've split the patches into core and device patches to make > them easier > to apply on my work trees. I'll merge the core and device > code together > when submitting a pull request to avoid bisection errors. > > I'll send a pull request after receiving (and incorporating) your > comments, or in a few days if there's no comments. > > Regards, > > Laurent Pinchart > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-media" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
