(EXT) Re: [PATCH 1/8] media: imx: Store the type of hardware implementation

[Alexander Stein]

Hi Laurent,

Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2022, 04:21:34 CET schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> Hi Alexander and Dorota,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 01:15:07PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > From: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm>
> > 
> > The driver covers i.MX5/6, as well as i.MX7/8 hardware.
> > Those implementations differ, e.g. in the sizes of buffers they accept.
> > 
> > Some functionality should be abstracted, and storing type achieves that.
> 
> I think that longer term (which ideally shouldn't be too far in the
> future) we should decouple the i.MX5/6 and i.MX7/8 drivers (this naming
> is actually not quite correct, there are i.MX6 SoCs that have a CSI
> bridge, not an IPUv3). The platforms are completely different at the
> hardware level, they shouldn't share the same code. That would allow us
> to evolve the CSI bridge driver independently from the IPUv3 driver, and
> move it from staging to drivers/media/.

That sounds reasonable. Although I'm not sure where to start. Split it for 
i.MX6 in the first place (CSI bridge vs. IPUv3)? Or start splitting across 
i.MX generation? I've yet to have broad knowledge about the internals to be 
able to come up with a good decision.

> I'm not against merging this if it can help short term, but please also
> feel free to start decoupling the drivers, even if it results in some
> duplicated code.

Thanks for willing to accept this short term patches. I'm hesitating to 
decoupling for now as I haven't fully grasped all the details and small 
similarities and differences.

> > Signed-off-by: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein at ew.tq-group.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in comparison to original commit from Dorota:
> > * Applied the suggestion from Hans at [1].
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/patch/20211104113631.20
> > 6899-2-dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm/> 
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-ic-prpencvf.c   | 3 ++-
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-capture.c | 5 ++++-
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c     | 3 ++-
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h         | 3 ++-
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c    | 3 ++-
> >  5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-ic-prpencvf.c
> > b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-ic-prpencvf.c index
> > 9b81cfbcd777..caaaac1a515a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-ic-prpencvf.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-ic-prpencvf.c
> > @@ -1266,7 +1266,8 @@ static int prp_registered(struct v4l2_subdev *sd)
> > 
> >  	priv->vdev = imx_media_capture_device_init(ic_priv->ipu_dev,
> >  	
> >  						   &ic_priv-
>sd,
> > 
> > -						   
PRPENCVF_SRC_PAD, true);
> > +						   
PRPENCVF_SRC_PAD, true,
> > +						   true);
> > 
> >  	if (IS_ERR(priv->vdev))
> >  	
> >  		return PTR_ERR(priv->vdev);
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-capture.c
> > b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-capture.c index
> > 93ba09236010..b61bf9f8ddf8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-capture.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-capture.c
> > @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct capture_priv {
> > 
> >  	struct v4l2_ctrl_handler ctrl_hdlr;	/* Controls inherited 
from subdevs
> >  	*/
> >  	
> >  	bool legacy_api;			/* Use the legacy (pre-
MC) API */
> > 
> > +	bool is_imx56;				/* Hardware 
is i.MX5/i.MX6 */
> 
> Can we create an enum type instead, to make the code more explicit ?

I don't mind. So I will pick up the original patches from Dorota at [1] 
instead which already had an enum.

Best regards,
Alexander

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/
20211104113631.206899-2-dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm/

> >  };
> >  
> >  #define to_capture_priv(v) container_of(v, struct capture_priv, vdev)
> > 
> > @@ -957,7 +958,8 @@
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(imx_media_capture_device_unregister);
> > 
> >  struct imx_media_video_dev *
> >  imx_media_capture_device_init(struct device *dev, struct v4l2_subdev
> >  *src_sd,> 
> > -			      int pad, bool legacy_api)
> > +			      int pad, bool legacy_api,
> > +			      bool is_imx56)
> > 
> >  {
> >  
> >  	struct capture_priv *priv;
> >  	struct video_device *vfd;
> > 
> > @@ -972,6 +974,7 @@ imx_media_capture_device_init(struct device *dev,
> > struct v4l2_subdev *src_sd,> 
> >  	priv->src_sd_pad = pad;
> >  	priv->dev = dev;
> >  	priv->legacy_api = legacy_api;
> > 
> > +	priv->is_imx56 = is_imx56;
> > 
> >  	mutex_init(&priv->mutex);
> >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->ready_q);
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c
> > b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c index
> > bd7f156f2d52..c8f6add00dbb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csi.c
> > @@ -1803,7 +1803,8 @@ static int csi_registered(struct v4l2_subdev *sd)
> > 
> >  	}
> >  	
> >  	priv->vdev = imx_media_capture_device_init(priv->sd.dev, &priv->sd,
> > 
> > -						   
CSI_SRC_PAD_IDMAC, true);
> > +						   
CSI_SRC_PAD_IDMAC, true,
> > +						   true);
> > 
> >  	if (IS_ERR(priv->vdev)) {
> >  	
> >  		ret = PTR_ERR(priv->vdev);
> >  		goto free_fim;
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h
> > b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h index f263fc3adbb9..73e8e6e0d8e8
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media.h
> > @@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ int imx_media_ic_unregister(struct v4l2_subdev *sd);
> > 
> >  /* imx-media-capture.c */
> >  struct imx_media_video_dev *
> >  imx_media_capture_device_init(struct device *dev, struct v4l2_subdev
> >  *src_sd,> 
> > -			      int pad, bool legacy_api);
> > +			      int pad, bool legacy_api,
> > +			      bool is_imx56);
> > 
> >  void imx_media_capture_device_remove(struct imx_media_video_dev *vdev);
> >  int imx_media_capture_device_register(struct imx_media_video_dev *vdev,
> >  
> >  				      u32 link_flags);
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c
> > b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c index
> > 32311fc0e2a4..158d2a736c6d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx7-media-csi.c
> > @@ -1039,7 +1039,8 @@ static int imx7_csi_registered(struct v4l2_subdev
> > *sd)> 
> >  	}
> >  	
> >  	csi->vdev = imx_media_capture_device_init(csi->sd.dev, &csi->sd,
> > 
> > -						  
IMX7_CSI_PAD_SRC, false);
> > +						  
IMX7_CSI_PAD_SRC, false,
> > +						  false);
> > 
> >  	if (IS_ERR(csi->vdev))
> >  	
> >  		return PTR_ERR(csi->vdev);