Hi Sakari, On Thursday, 14 December 2017 16:25:00 EET Sakari Ailus wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:17:36AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Friday, 8 December 2017 03:08:21 EET Niklas Söderlund wrote: > > > The rcar-vin driver needs to be part of a media controller to support > > > Gen3. Give each VIN instance a unique name so it can be referenced from > > > userspace. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <[email protected]> > > > Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]> > > > Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > > > > drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c | 3 ++- > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c > > > b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c index > > > 59ec6d3d119590aa..19de99133f048960 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c > > > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-v4l2.c > > > @@ -876,7 +876,8 @@ int rvin_v4l2_register(struct rvin_dev *vin) > > > > > > vdev->fops = &rvin_fops; > > > vdev->v4l2_dev = &vin->v4l2_dev; > > > vdev->queue = &vin->queue; > > > > > > - strlcpy(vdev->name, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(vdev->name)); > > > + snprintf(vdev->name, sizeof(vdev->name), "%s %s", KBUILD_MODNAME, > > > + dev_name(vin->dev)); > > > > Do we need the module name here ? How about calling them "%s output", > > dev_name(vin->dev) to emphasize the fact that this is a video node and not > > a VIN subdev ? This is what the omap3isp and vsp1 drivers do. > > > > We're suffering a bit from the fact that V4L2 has never standardized a > > naming scheme for the devices. It wouldn't be fair to ask you to fix that > > as a prerequisite to get the VIN driver merged, but we clearly have to > > work on that at some point. > > Agreed, this needs to be stable and I think aligning to what omap3isp or > vsp1 do would be a good fix here.
Even omap3isp and vsp1 are not fully aligned, so I think we need to design a naming policy and document it. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
