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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 00/36] i.MX Media Driver
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On 02/16/2017 03:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Two problems.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 06:19:02PM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>> media: imx: propagate sink pad formats to source pads
>
> 1) It looks like all cases aren't being caught:
>
> - entity 74: ipu1_csi0 (3 pads, 4 links)
> type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
> device node name /dev/v4l-subdev13
> pad0: Sink
> [fmt:SRGGB8/816x616 field:none]
> <- "ipu1_csi0_mux":2 [ENABLED]
> pad1: Source
> [fmt:AYUV32/816x616 field:none
> crop.bounds:(0,0)/816x616
> crop:(0,0)/816x616]
> -> "ipu1_ic_prp":0 []
> -> "ipu1_vdic":0 []
> pad2: Source
> [fmt:SRGGB8/816x616 field:none
> crop.bounds:(0,0)/816x616
> crop:(0,0)/816x616]
> -> "ipu1_csi0 capture":0 [ENABLED]
>
> While the size has been propagated to pad1, the format has not.

Right, Philipp also caught this. I need to finish propagating all
params from sink to source pads (mbus code and field, and colorimetry
eventually).

>
> 2) /dev/video* device node assignment
>
> I've no idea at the moment how the correct /dev/video* node should be
> chosen - initially with Philipp and your previous code, it was
> /dev/video3 after initial boot. Philipp's was consistently /dev/video3.
> Yours changed to /dev/video7 when removing and re-inserting the modules
> (having fixed that locally.) This version makes CSI0 be /dev/video7,
> but after a remove+reinsert, it becomes (eg) /dev/video8.
>
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-capture-subsystem-video-index4 also is not a
> stable path - the digit changes (it's supposed to be a stable path.)
> After a remove+reinsert, it becomes (eg)
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-capture-subsystem-video-index5.
> /dev/v4l/by-id doesn't contain a symlink for this either.
>
> What this means is that it's very hard to script the setup, because
> there's no easy way to know what device is the capture device. While
> it may be possible to do:
>
> media-ctl -d /dev/media1 -p | \
> grep -A2 ': ipu1_csi0 capture' | \
> sed -n 's|.*\(/dev/video[0-9]*\).*|\1|p'
>
> that's hardly a nice solution - while it fixes the setup script, it
> doesn't stop the pain of having to delve around to find the correct
> device to use for gstreamer to test with.
>

I'll try to nail down the main capture node numbers, even after module
reload.

Steve

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