Re: [RFC PATCH] [media]: of: move graph helpers from drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Feb 11 2014 - 08:56:41 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch moves the parsing helpers used to parse connected graphs
> in the device tree, like the video interface bindings documented in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt, from
> drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of.

This is the opposite direction things have been moving...

> This allows to reuse the same parser code from outside the V4L2 framework,
> most importantly from display drivers. There have been patches that duplicate
> the code (and I am going to send one of my own), such as
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-August/043308.html
> and others that parse the same binding in a different way:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg100761.html
>
> I think that all common video interface parsing helpers should be moved to a
> single place, outside of the specific subsystems, so that it can be reused
> by all drivers.

Perhaps that should be done rather than moving to drivers/of now and
then again to somewhere else.

> I moved v4l2_of_get_next_endpoint, v4l2_of_get_remote_port,
> and v4l2_of_get_remote_port_parent. They are renamed to
> of_graph_get_next_endpoint, of_graph_get_remote_port, and
> of_graph_get_remote_port_parent, respectively.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-of.c | 117 ---------------------------------
> drivers/of/Kconfig | 3 +
> drivers/of/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/of/of_graph.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of_graph.h | 23 +++++++
> include/media/v4l2-of.h | 16 ++---
> 7 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/of/of_graph.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/of_graph.h

[snip]

> diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-of.h b/include/media/v4l2-of.h
> index 541cea4..404a493 100644
> --- a/include/media/v4l2-of.h
> +++ b/include/media/v4l2-of.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/list.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/of_graph.h>
>
> #include <media/v4l2-mediabus.h>
>
> @@ -72,11 +73,6 @@ struct v4l2_of_endpoint {
> #ifdef CONFIG_OF
> int v4l2_of_parse_endpoint(const struct device_node *node,
> struct v4l2_of_endpoint *endpoint);
> -struct device_node *v4l2_of_get_next_endpoint(const struct device_node *parent,
> - struct device_node *previous);
> -struct device_node *v4l2_of_get_remote_port_parent(
> - const struct device_node *node);
> -struct device_node *v4l2_of_get_remote_port(const struct device_node *node);
> #else /* CONFIG_OF */
>
> static inline int v4l2_of_parse_endpoint(const struct device_node *node,
> @@ -85,25 +81,25 @@ static inline int v4l2_of_parse_endpoint(const struct device_node *node,
> return -ENOSYS;
> }
>
> +#endif /* CONFIG_OF */
> +
> static inline struct device_node *v4l2_of_get_next_endpoint(
> const struct device_node *parent,
> struct device_node *previous)
> {
> - return NULL;
> + return of_graph_get_next_endpoint(parent, previous);

Won't this break for !OF?

Rob
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