On 05/24/2016 05:39 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > Media Device Allocator API to allows multiple drivers share a media device. > Using this API, drivers can allocate a media device with the shared struct > device as the key. Once the media device is allocated by a driver, other > drivers can get a reference to it. The media device is released when all > the references are released. > > This patch series has been tested with au0828 and snd-usb-audio drivers. > snd-us-audio patch isn't included in this series. Once this patch series > is reviews and gets a stable state, I will send out the snd-usb-audio > patch. > > Changes since Patch v1 series: (based on Hans Virkuil's review) > - Removed media_device_get() and media_device_allocate(). These are > unnecessary. > - media_device_usb_allocate() holds media_device_lock to do allocate > and initialize the media device. > - Changed media_device_put() to media_device_delete() for symmetry with > media_device_*_allocate(). > - Dropped media_device_unregister_put(). au0828 calls media_device_delete() > instead. > > Shuah Khan (2): > media: Media Device Allocator API > media: change au0828 to use Media Device Allocator API > > drivers/media/Makefile | 3 +- > drivers/media/media-dev-allocator.c | 120 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 12 ++-- > drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828.h | 1 + > include/media/media-dev-allocator.h | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/media/media-dev-allocator.c > create mode 100644 include/media/media-dev-allocator.h >
Hi Mauro, Are you planning to get this inot 4,8-rc1? The first patch is now at [PATCH v3] media: Media Device Allocator API that has been reviewed by Hans. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/530 thanks, -- Shuah -- 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
