Those modules were left out of display list integration as they're not
used by the DRM pipeline. To prepare for display list support in non-DRM
pipelines use the module write API to set registers.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The control handler set operations don't program the hardware anymore,
there's thus no need to call them when starting the stream.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The datasheet clearly states that all but a few registers can't be
modified when the device is running. Programming the intensity
parameters in the control set handler is thus prohibited. Program it
when starting the module instead.
This requires storing the intensity value internally as the module can
be started from the frame completion interrupt handler, and accessing
control values requires taking a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The datasheet clearly states that all but a few registers can't be
modified when the device is running. Programming the alpha value in
the control set handler is thus prohibited. Program it when starting the
module instead.
This requires storing the alpha value internally as the module can be
started from the frame completion interrupt handler, and accessing
control values requires taking a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
As reported by smatch:
drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drm.c:39:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'vsp1_drm_frame_end' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
void vsp1_drm_frame_end(struct vsp1_pipeline *pipe)
Fixes: ef9621bcd6 ("[media] v4l: vsp1: Store the display list manager in the WPF")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The datasheet clearly states that all but a few registers can't be
modified when the device is running. Programming the background color
in the control set handler is thus prohibited. Program it when starting
the module instead.
This requires storing the background color value internally as the
module can be started from the frame completion interrupt handler, and
accessing control values requires taking a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Each WPF can process display lists independently, move the manager to
the WPF to reflect that and prepare for display list support for non-DRM
pipelines.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
This clarifies the API and prepares display list support for being used
to implement the request API.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The DRM pipeline, as it runs in automatic restart mode, never sees the
pipeline state set to VSP1_PIPELINE_STOPPING or VSP1_PIPELINE_STOPPED
when running the frame end interrupt handler. We can thus skip the
checks various checks in the handler and return immediately.
Similarly the DRM frame end handler calls vsp1_pipeline_run()
unnecessarily, as the state there is never VSP1_PIPELINE_STOPPED. Remove
the function call and the frame end handler is it's now empty.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Make sure display list usage is correctly disabled by always setting up
the corresponding registers, including when the display list feature
isn't used.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Remove the HAS_LUT flag in the corresponding device information entry.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Commit 54b5a749b4 ("[media] v4l: vsp1: Use media entity enumeration
interface") wasn't aligned with the driver coding style. Fix it by
renaming the rval variable to ret.
Furthermore shorten lines by accessing the media_device instance in a
more straightforward fashion.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The VSP1 DRM API is declared in <media/vsp1.h>, not <linux/vsp1.h>. Fix
it. This also reverts commit 18922936dc ("[media] vsp1_drm.h: add
missing prototypes") that added the same declarations in a different
header file.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The functions are void, make the declaration match the definition.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Add a new subdev operation to initialize a subdev pad config array, and
a helper function to allocate and initialize the array. This can be used
by bridge drivers to implement try format based on subdev pad
operations.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vaibhav Hiremath <vaibhav.hiremath@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
All users of is_media_entity_v4l2_io() (the exynos4-is, omap3isp,
davince_vpfe and omap4iss drivers and the v4l2-mc power management code)
use the function to check whether entities are video_device instances,
either to ensure they can cast the entity to a struct video_device, or
to count the number of video nodes users.
The purpose of the function is thus to identify whether the media entity
instance is an instance of the video_device object, not to check whether
it can perform I/O. Rename it accordingly, we will introduce a more
specific is_media_entity_v4l2_io() check when needed.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Code that processes media entities can require knowledge of the
structure type that embeds a particular media entity instance in order
to cast the entity to the proper object type. This needs is shown by the
presence of the is_media_entity_v4l2_io and is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev
functions.
The implementation of those two functions relies on the entity function
field, which is both a wrong and an inefficient design, without even
mentioning the maintenance issue involved in updating the functions
every time a new entity function is added. Fix this by adding add an
obj_type field to the media entity structure to carry the information.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Simply document new compatibility string.
As a previous patch adds a generic R-Car Gen2 compatibility string
there appears to be no need for a driver updates.
By documenting this compat string it may be used in DTSs shipped, for
example as part of ROMs. It must be used in conjunction with the Gen2
fallback compat string. At this time there are no known differences between
the r8a7792 IP block and that implemented by the driver for the Gen2
fallback compat string. Thus there is no need to update the driver as the
use of the Gen2 fallback compat string will activate the correct code in
the current driver while leaving the option for r8a7792-specific driver
code to be activated in an updated driver should the need arise.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Add fallback compatibility string for R-Car Gen 1 and 2.
In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
SoCs, e.g. Gen 2 and 3. But beyond that it's unclear what the relationship
between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that r8a7790 is older
than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a descendant of the
former or vice versa.
We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
drivers for Renesas SoCs.
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Kaneko <ykaneko0929@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
A dependency on ARCH_SHMOBILE seems to be the best option for
sh_mobile_ceu_camera:
* For Super H based SoCs: sh_mobile_ceu is used on SH_AP325RXA, SH_ECOVEC,
SH_KFR2R09, SH_MIGOR, and SH_7724_SOLUTION_ENGINE which depend on
CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7722, CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7723, or CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7724 which all
select ARCH_SHMOBILE.
* For ARM Based SoCs: Since the removal of legacy (non-multiplatform)
support this driver has not been used by any Renesas ARM based SoCs.
The Renesas ARM based SoCs currently select ARCH_SHMOBILE, however,
it is planned that this will no longer be the case.
This is part of an ongoing process to migrate from ARCH_SHMOBILE to
ARCH_RENESAS the motivation for which being that RENESAS seems to be a more
appropriate name than SHMOBILE for the majority of Renesas ARM based SoCs.
Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for analysis and portions of the
change log text.
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Make use of ARCH_RENESAS in place of ARCH_SHMOBILE.
This is part of an ongoing process to migrate from ARCH_SHMOBILE to
ARCH_RENESAS the motivation for which being that RENESAS seems to be a more
appropriate name than SHMOBILE for the majority of Renesas ARM based SoCs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
An V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_SHARPNESS macro is defined in the au0828 driver, but
never used. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Smatch complains that there are some paths where "status" isn't
initialized. The code does assume that m5mols_read_u8() can fail so it
seems as if Smatch is correct.
Let's initialize it to REG_ISO_AUTO which is zero.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The "handled" variable could be uninitialized if the
interrupt_service_routine() call back hasn't been implimented or if it
has been implemented but doesn't initialize "handled" to zero at the
start. For example, adv76xx_isr() only sets "handled" to true.
Fixes: 44b153ca63 ('[media] m5mols: Add ISO sensitivity controls')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
If we are doing V4L2_FIELD_NONE then "ret" is used uninitialized.
Fixes: 417d2e507e ('[media] media: platform: add VPFE capture driver support for AM437X')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
gcc-6 points out an obviously silly comparison in vpfe_get_app_input_index():
drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c: In function 'vpfe_get_app_input_index':
drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c:1709:27: warning: self-comparison always evaluats to true [-Wtautological-compare]
client->adapter->nr == client->adapter->nr) {
^~
This was introduced in a slighly incorrect conversion, and it's
clear that the comparison was meant to compare the iterator
to the current subdev instead, as we do in the line above.
Fixes: d37232390f ("[media] media: am437x-vpfe: match the OF node/i2c addr instead of name")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The cobalt driver fails to link when it is built-in and MTD is disabled or a
loadable module:
drivers/media/built-in.o: In function `cobalt_flash_probe':
:(.text+0xb8b46): undefined reference to `mtd_device_parse_register'
:(.text+0xb8b88): undefined reference to `do_map_probe'
drivers/media/built-in.o: In function `cobalt_flash_remove':
:(.text+0xb8bb4): undefined reference to `mtd_device_unregister'
:(.text+0xb8bbe): undefined reference to `map_destroy'
This adds a Kconfig dependency to ensure we can call the API.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
In v4l2-compliance utility, test VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS will check whether reserved
filed of v4l2_create_buffers filled with zero
Reserved field is filled with zero in v4l_create_bufs.
This patch copy reserved field of v4l2_create_buffer from kernel space to user
space
Signed-off-by: Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v3.19 and up
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
On the particular case when the product id is 0x2101 we have requested
for a firmware but after processing it we missed releasing it.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
When we returned on error we missed freeing p_current_fw and p_buffer.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Instead of a big if at the beginning, just check if g_selection == NULL
and call the cropcap op immediately and return the result.
No functional changes in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
With the new core support for the caps the driver no longer needs
to set device_caps and capabilities in the querycap call.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Instead of letting drivers fill in device_caps at querycap time,
let them fill it in when the video device is registered.
This has the advantage that in the future the v4l2 core can access
the video device's capabilities and take decisions based on that.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
As reported by smatch:
drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c:1073 gsc_probe() warn: impossible condition '(gsc->id < 0) => (0-65535 < 0)'
drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c: In function 'gsc_probe':
drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c:1073:51: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
if (gsc->id >= drv_data->num_entities || gsc->id < 0) {
^
gsc->id is an u16, so it can never be a negative number. So,
remove the always false condition.
Fixes: c1ac057173 "[media] exynos-gsc: remove non-device-tree init code"
Cc: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The mxr_layer_ops structures are never modified, so declare
them as const.
Done with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Exynos and Samsung S5P platforms has been fully converted to device
tree, so old platform device based init data can be now removed.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Exynos and Samsung S5P platforms has been fully converted to device
tree, so old platform device based init data can be now removed.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Exynos and Samsung S5P platforms has been fully converted to device
tree, so old platform device based init data can be now removed.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Exynos platform has been fully converted to device tree,
so old platform device based init data can be now removed.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Eliminate iommu fault during encoding by adjusting image size
used for buffer size computation and ensuring that the buffer
is not overrun.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The MIPI CSIS DT parse function return an -ENXIO errno if the port #
is outside of the supported values. But it doesn't call of_node_put()
to decrement the node's reference counter, that's incremented inside
the of_graph_get_next_endpoint() function that was called before.
Instead of just returning, go to the error path that already does it.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
In fimc_md_parse_port_node() remote port parent node is acquired with
of_graph_get_remote_port_parent() but it is not put on error path.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
If au0828 gets removed, we need to remove the notifiers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
We should protect the device unregister patch too, at the error
condition.
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The comment is for the wrong function. Fix it.
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
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Merge tag 'media/v4.6-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"Some bug fixes on au0828 and snd-usb-audio:
- the au0828+snd-usb-audio MC patch broke several things and produced
some race conditions. Better to revert the patches, and re-work on
them for a next version
- fix a regression at tuner disable links logic
- properly handle dev_state as a bitmask"
* tag 'media/v4.6-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media:
[media] Revert "[media] media: au0828 change to use Managed Media Controller API"
[media] Revert "[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share media resources"
[media] au0828: Fix dev_state handling
[media] au0828: fix au0828_v4l2_close() dev_state race condition
[media] media: au0828 fix to clear enable/disable/change source handlers
[media] v4l2-mc: cleanup a warning
[media] au0828: disable tuner links and cache tuner/decoder
