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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2009-03-13 14:03:04 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2009-03-30 17:43:20 +0200
commit005759613b95264fba9138010f112bc138c857c2 (patch)
tree43fa1d5a9035c51ab822906b5114885ac35707df
parentV4L/DVB (10987): cx23885: fix crash on non-netup cards (diff)
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V4L/DVB (10988): v4l2-dev: use parent field if the v4l2_device has no parent set.
Normally the parent device of v4l2_device is used as the video device node's parent. But if it was not set, then use the parent field in the video_device struct. This is needed in the cx88 driver, which has one core v4l2_device but creates multiple pci devices (one each for raw and mpeg video). So you cannot associate the core v4l2_device with a particular PCI device, but you can do that for each video_device. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt12
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c2
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 51a7b6db118f..df0247ed13d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ NULL, then you *must* setup v4l2_dev->name before calling v4l2_device_register.
The first 'dev' argument is normally the struct device pointer of a pci_dev,
usb_device or platform_device. It is rare for dev to be NULL, but it happens
-with ISA devices, for example.
+with ISA devices or when one device creates multiple PCI devices, thus making
+it impossible to associate v4l2_dev with a particular parent.
You unregister with:
@@ -414,6 +415,15 @@ You should also set these fields:
- ioctl_ops: if you use the v4l2_ioctl_ops to simplify ioctl maintenance
(highly recommended to use this and it might become compulsory in the
future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct.
+- parent: you only set this if v4l2_device was registered with NULL as
+ the parent device struct. This only happens in cases where one hardware
+ device has multiple PCI devices that all share the same v4l2_device core.
+
+ The cx88 driver is an example of this: one core v4l2_device struct, but
+ it is used by both an raw video PCI device (cx8800) and a MPEG PCI device
+ (cx8802). Since the v4l2_device cannot be associated with a particular
+ PCI device it is setup without a parent device. But when the struct
+ video_device is setup you do know which parent PCI device to use.
If you use v4l2_ioctl_ops, then you should set either .unlocked_ioctl or
.ioctl to video_ioctl2 in your v4l2_file_operations struct.
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
index 64c638ecdd4b..cdc8ce3c4e56 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ int video_register_device_index(struct video_device *vdev, int type, int nr,
vdev->vfl_type = type;
vdev->cdev = NULL;
- if (vdev->v4l2_dev)
+ if (vdev->v4l2_dev && vdev->v4l2_dev->dev)
vdev->parent = vdev->v4l2_dev->dev;
/* Part 2: find a free minor, kernel number and device index. */