Hi Laurent,

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 08:17:19PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > +   /*
> > +    * Create a static mapping between the CSI virtual channels
> > +    * and the output stream.
> > +    *
> > +    * This should be enhanced, but v4l2 lacks the support for
> > +    * changing that mapping dynamically.
> > +    *
> > +    * We also cannot enable and disable independant streams here,
> > +    * hence the reference counting.
> > +    */
> 
> If you start all streams in one go, will s_stream(1) be called multiple times 
> ? If not, you could possibly skip the whole reference counting and avoid 
> locking.

I guess that while we should expect the CSI-2 bus to be always
enabled, the downstream camera interface could be shutdown
independently, so I guess s_stream would be called each time one is
brought up or brought down?

Maxime

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