Simplify the sh-vou clean up by using devm_* were possible.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Bitrot has set in for this driver and the sh-vou clock was never enabled,
since the clock name in clock-sh7724.c was wrong. It should be sh-vou, not
sh-vou.0.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Thanks-to: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Make sure that there are valid values in the crop rectangle to ensure
that the color plane doesn't get shifted when cropping.
Since there is no distinction between 12bit and 16bit YUV formats in
at the subdev level, use the more restrictive 12bit limits for all YUV
formats.
Signed-off-by: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Kaneko <ykaneko0929@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
When stopping the pipeline the driver waits for the pipeline state to be
set to VSP1_PIPELINE_STOPPED but fails to lock the pipe irqlock to read
the state variable protected by the lock. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Fix Suspend-to-RAM so that VSP1 driver continues to work after resuming.
In detail,
- Fix the judgment of ref count in resuming.
- Add stopping VSP1 during suspend.
[Refactor the suspend and resume code to lower suspend delay]
Signed-off-by: Sei Fumizono <sei.fumizono.jw@hitachi-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoshifumi Hosoya <yoshifumi.hosoya.wj@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Kaneko <ykaneko0929@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
FXA bit of VI6_DPR_mod_ROUTE register starts from 16bit. But VI6_DPR_ROUTE_FXA_MASK
is set to become start from 8bit. This fixes shift size for VI6_DPR_ROUTE_FXA_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
FP bit of VI6_DPR_mod_ROUTE register is 6bit. But VI6_DPR_ROUTE_FP_MASK is set
to 0xFF, this will mask until the reserve bit.
This fixes size for VI6_DPR_ROUTE_FP_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Clipping size bit of VI6_WPFn _HSZCLIP and VI6_WPFn _VSZCLIP register are from
0 bit to 11 bit. But VI6_WPF_SZCLIP_SIZE_MASK is set to 0x1FFF, this will mask
until the reserve bits. This fixes size for VI6_WPF_SZCLIP_SIZE_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
API compliance scanning with coccinelle flagged:
./drivers/media/usb/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c:180:9-25:
WARNING: timeout (100) seems HZ dependent
Numeric constants passed to schedule_timeout() make the effective
timeout HZ dependent which makes little sense in a polling loop for
the cameras rotation state.
Fixed up by converting the constant to jiffies with msecs_to_jiffies()
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
We already know status is negative because of the earlier check so there
is no need to check again.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
They are no longer used in old non-control-framework
bridge drivers.
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
In many cases, refresh rate is not exact integer. In such cases,
fraction was lost and it used to print, say, 59 in case of 59.94.
Now, capturing the fraction up to 2 decimal places.
Signed-off-by: Prashant Laddha <prladdha@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
We can simplify the code removing the if().
v4l2_ctr_new sets ctrls->elems to 1 when !ctrl->is_ptr.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The runtime pm resume/suspend will enable/disable pclk (ISI peripheral
clock).
We have to call runtime_pm_get_sync()/runtime_pm_put() when we need to
access ISI registers. In atmel_isi_probe(), remove the isi disable code
as at that moment ISI peripheral clock is not enable yet.
Besides, clock_start()/clock_stop() is used to control the mclk, not
the ISI peripheral clock. So move this to start[stop]_streaming()
function.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
In current code, stop_streaming() will just return if ISI is still
working in the codec. But this is incorrect, we need to disable ISI even
it is working on the codec, otherwise stop_streaming() will not work as
we expected.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cropping should be configured on the pipeline subdev nodes, not through
the video nodes. Remove crop support on all video nodes.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Now that the driver doesn't use the non-exported omap4_ctrl_pad_readl
and omap4_ctrl_pad_writel functions nothing prevents it from being
compiled as a module anymore.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Commit 813f5c0ac5 ("media: Change media device link_notify behaviour")
modified the media controller link setup notification API and updated the
OMAP3 ISP driver accordingly. As a side effect it introduced a bug by
turning power on after setting the link instead of before. This results in
sub-devices not being powered down in some cases when they should be. Fix
it.
Fixes: 813f5c0ac5 [media] media: Change media device link_notify behaviour
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # since v3.10
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The async notifier was registered before the v4l2_device was registered and
before the notifier callbacks were set. This could lead to missing the
bound() and complete() callbacks and to attempting to spin_lock() and
uninitialised spin lock.
Also fix unregistering the async notifier in the case of an error --- the
function may not fail anymore after the notifier is registered.
Fixes: da7f3843d2 ("[media] omap3isp: Add support for the Device Tree")
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The last CVT standard introduced reduced blanking version 2 which is signaled by
a vsync of 8. Log this.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Added support for reduced blanking version 2 (RB v2) in cvt timings.
Standard specifies a fixed vsync pulse of 8 lines to indicate RB v2
timings. Vertical back porch is fixed at 6 lines and vertical front
porch is remainder of vertical blanking time.
For RB v2, horizontal blanking is fixed at 80 pixels. Horizontal sync
is fixed at 32. All horizontal timing counts (active pixels, front,
back porches) can be specified upto a precision of 1.
RB v2 allows for non standard aspect ratios. In RB v2 vsync does not
indicate aspect ratio. In absence of aspect ratio v4l2_detect_cvt()
cannot calculate image width from image height. Hence extending the
v4l2_detect_cvt() to pass image width in case of RB v2.
Signed-off-by: Prashant Laddha <prladdha@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Use kernel.h macro definition.
Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Use kernel.h macro definition.
Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Use kernel.h macro definition.
Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Use kernel.h macro definition.
Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Use kernel.h macro definition.
Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The RC_ST and IR_SUNXI entries have weird indentation, and the RC_ST
entry is actually malformed. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
This patch fixes region selection for lower bottom_frequency in BCM2048 FM
receiver. It also removes "Japan wide band" region since this is impossible
to do just like that.
Signed-off-by: Jan Roemisch <maxx@spaceboyz.net>
Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
solo_dev and pdev cannot be NULL here. It doesn't matter if we
initialized the PCI device or not.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Ha?asa <khalasa@piap.pl>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
readl() and writel() are atomic, we don't need the spin lock.
Also, flushing posted write buffer isn't required. Especially on read :-)
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Ha?asa <khalasa@piap.pl>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Fixes a panic on ARM. Diagnosis by Russell King.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Ha?asa <khalasa@piap.pl>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The period count is fixed, don't confuse ALSA.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Ha?asa <khalasa@piap.pl>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Fix the sequence counter: we're counting frames, not fields.
Also remove the unused 'field' field. That would only be needed if this driver
would support V4L2_FIELD_ALTERNATE.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
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Merge tag 'v4.2-rc1' into patchwork
Linux 4.2-rc1
* tag 'v4.2-rc1': (12415 commits)
Linux 4.2-rc1
bluetooth: fix list handling
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
NTB: Add split BAR output for debugfs stats
NTB: Change WARN_ON_ONCE to pr_warn_once on unsafe
NTB: Print driver name and version in module init
NTB: Increase transport MTU to 64k from 16k
NTB: Rename Intel code names to platform names
NTB: Default to CPU memcpy for performance
NTB: Improve performance with write combining
NTB: Use NUMA memory in Intel driver
NTB: Use NUMA memory and DMA chan in transport
NTB: Rate limit ntb_qp_link_work
NTB: Add tool test client
...
A new intel_pmc_ipc driver, a symmetrical allocation and free fix in
dell-laptop, a couple minor fixes, and some updated documentation in the
dell-laptop comments.
intel_pmc_ipc:
- Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
tc1100-wmi:
- Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
dell-laptop:
- Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
- Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
- Update information about wireless control
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Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86
Pull late x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart:
"The following came in a bit later and I wanted them to bake in next a
few more days before submitting, thus the second pull.
A new intel_pmc_ipc driver, a symmetrical allocation and free fix in
dell-laptop, a couple minor fixes, and some updated documentation in
the dell-laptop comments.
intel_pmc_ipc:
- Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
tc1100-wmi:
- Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
dell-laptop:
- Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
- Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
- Update information about wireless control"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86:
intel_pmc_ipc: Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
dell-laptop: Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
dell-laptop: Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
dell-laptop: Update information about wireless control
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes.
fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"
[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The
file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ]
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
make simple_positive() public
ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
remove the pointless include of lglock.h
fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
...
