| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Overview of the V4L2 driver framework | 
 | 2 | ===================================== | 
 | 3 |  | 
 | 4 | This text documents the various structures provided by the V4L2 framework and | 
 | 5 | their relationships. | 
 | 6 |  | 
 | 7 |  | 
 | 8 | Introduction | 
 | 9 | ------------ | 
 | 10 |  | 
 | 11 | The V4L2 drivers tend to be very complex due to the complexity of the | 
 | 12 | hardware: most devices have multiple ICs, export multiple device nodes in | 
 | 13 | /dev, and create also non-V4L2 devices such as DVB, ALSA, FB, I2C and input | 
 | 14 | (IR) devices. | 
 | 15 |  | 
 | 16 | Especially the fact that V4L2 drivers have to setup supporting ICs to | 
 | 17 | do audio/video muxing/encoding/decoding makes it more complex than most. | 
 | 18 | Usually these ICs are connected to the main bridge driver through one or | 
 | 19 | more I2C busses, but other busses can also be used. Such devices are | 
 | 20 | called 'sub-devices'. | 
 | 21 |  | 
 | 22 | For a long time the framework was limited to the video_device struct for | 
 | 23 | creating V4L device nodes and video_buf for handling the video buffers | 
 | 24 | (note that this document does not discuss the video_buf framework). | 
 | 25 |  | 
 | 26 | This meant that all drivers had to do the setup of device instances and | 
 | 27 | connecting to sub-devices themselves. Some of this is quite complicated | 
 | 28 | to do right and many drivers never did do it correctly. | 
 | 29 |  | 
 | 30 | There is also a lot of common code that could never be refactored due to | 
 | 31 | the lack of a framework. | 
 | 32 |  | 
 | 33 | So this framework sets up the basic building blocks that all drivers | 
 | 34 | need and this same framework should make it much easier to refactor | 
 | 35 | common code into utility functions shared by all drivers. | 
 | 36 |  | 
 | 37 |  | 
 | 38 | Structure of a driver | 
 | 39 | --------------------- | 
 | 40 |  | 
 | 41 | All drivers have the following structure: | 
 | 42 |  | 
 | 43 | 1) A struct for each device instance containing the device state. | 
 | 44 |  | 
 | 45 | 2) A way of initializing and commanding sub-devices (if any). | 
 | 46 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | f44026d | 2010-08-06 12:52:43 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | 3) Creating V4L2 device nodes (/dev/videoX, /dev/vbiX and /dev/radioX) | 
 | 48 |    and keeping track of device-node specific data. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 49 |  | 
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 44061c0 | 2009-02-14 07:29:07 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | 4) Filehandle-specific structs containing per-filehandle data; | 
 | 51 |  | 
 | 52 | 5) video buffer handling. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 53 |  | 
 | 54 | This is a rough schematic of how it all relates: | 
 | 55 |  | 
 | 56 |     device instances | 
 | 57 |       | | 
 | 58 |       +-sub-device instances | 
 | 59 |       | | 
 | 60 |       \-V4L2 device nodes | 
 | 61 | 	  | | 
 | 62 | 	  \-filehandle instances | 
 | 63 |  | 
 | 64 |  | 
 | 65 | Structure of the framework | 
 | 66 | -------------------------- | 
 | 67 |  | 
 | 68 | The framework closely resembles the driver structure: it has a v4l2_device | 
 | 69 | struct for the device instance data, a v4l2_subdev struct to refer to | 
 | 70 | sub-device instances, the video_device struct stores V4L2 device node data | 
 | 71 | and in the future a v4l2_fh struct will keep track of filehandle instances | 
 | 72 | (this is not yet implemented). | 
 | 73 |  | 
 | 74 |  | 
 | 75 | struct v4l2_device | 
 | 76 | ------------------ | 
 | 77 |  | 
 | 78 | Each device instance is represented by a struct v4l2_device (v4l2-device.h). | 
 | 79 | Very simple devices can just allocate this struct, but most of the time you | 
 | 80 | would embed this struct inside a larger struct. | 
 | 81 |  | 
 | 82 | You must register the device instance: | 
 | 83 |  | 
 | 84 | 	v4l2_device_register(struct device *dev, struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev); | 
 | 85 |  | 
 | 86 | Registration will initialize the v4l2_device struct and link dev->driver_data | 
| Hans Verkuil | 3a63e449 | 2009-02-14 11:54:23 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | to v4l2_dev. If v4l2_dev->name is empty then it will be set to a value derived | 
 | 88 | from dev (driver name followed by the bus_id, to be precise). If you set it | 
 | 89 | up before calling v4l2_device_register then it will be untouched. If dev is | 
 | 90 | NULL, then you *must* setup v4l2_dev->name before calling v4l2_device_register. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 91 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 102e781 | 2009-05-02 10:12:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | You can use v4l2_device_set_name() to set the name based on a driver name and | 
 | 93 | a driver-global atomic_t instance. This will generate names like ivtv0, ivtv1, | 
 | 94 | etc. If the name ends with a digit, then it will insert a dash: cx18-0, | 
 | 95 | cx18-1, etc. This function returns the instance number. | 
 | 96 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | The first 'dev' argument is normally the struct device pointer of a pci_dev, | 
| Janne Grunau | 073d696 | 2009-04-01 08:30:06 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | usb_interface or platform_device. It is rare for dev to be NULL, but it happens | 
| Hans Verkuil | 0057596 | 2009-03-13 10:03:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | with ISA devices or when one device creates multiple PCI devices, thus making | 
 | 100 | it impossible to associate v4l2_dev with a particular parent. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 101 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 98ec633 | 2009-03-08 17:02:10 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | You can also supply a notify() callback that can be called by sub-devices to | 
 | 103 | notify you of events. Whether you need to set this depends on the sub-device. | 
 | 104 | Any notifications a sub-device supports must be defined in a header in | 
 | 105 | include/media/<subdevice>.h. | 
 | 106 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | You unregister with: | 
 | 108 |  | 
 | 109 | 	v4l2_device_unregister(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev); | 
 | 110 |  | 
 | 111 | Unregistering will also automatically unregister all subdevs from the device. | 
 | 112 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | ae6cfaa | 2009-03-14 08:28:45 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | If you have a hotpluggable device (e.g. a USB device), then when a disconnect | 
 | 114 | happens the parent device becomes invalid. Since v4l2_device has a pointer to | 
 | 115 | that parent device it has to be cleared as well to mark that the parent is | 
 | 116 | gone. To do this call: | 
 | 117 |  | 
 | 118 | 	v4l2_device_disconnect(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev); | 
 | 119 |  | 
 | 120 | This does *not* unregister the subdevs, so you still need to call the | 
 | 121 | v4l2_device_unregister() function for that. If your driver is not hotpluggable, | 
 | 122 | then there is no need to call v4l2_device_disconnect(). | 
 | 123 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | Sometimes you need to iterate over all devices registered by a specific | 
 | 125 | driver. This is usually the case if multiple device drivers use the same | 
 | 126 | hardware. E.g. the ivtvfb driver is a framebuffer driver that uses the ivtv | 
 | 127 | hardware. The same is true for alsa drivers for example. | 
 | 128 |  | 
 | 129 | You can iterate over all registered devices as follows: | 
 | 130 |  | 
 | 131 | static int callback(struct device *dev, void *p) | 
 | 132 | { | 
 | 133 | 	struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev); | 
 | 134 |  | 
 | 135 | 	/* test if this device was inited */ | 
 | 136 | 	if (v4l2_dev == NULL) | 
 | 137 | 		return 0; | 
 | 138 | 	... | 
 | 139 | 	return 0; | 
 | 140 | } | 
 | 141 |  | 
 | 142 | int iterate(void *p) | 
 | 143 | { | 
 | 144 | 	struct device_driver *drv; | 
 | 145 | 	int err; | 
 | 146 |  | 
 | 147 | 	/* Find driver 'ivtv' on the PCI bus. | 
 | 148 | 	   pci_bus_type is a global. For USB busses use usb_bus_type. */ | 
 | 149 | 	drv = driver_find("ivtv", &pci_bus_type); | 
 | 150 | 	/* iterate over all ivtv device instances */ | 
 | 151 | 	err = driver_for_each_device(drv, NULL, p, callback); | 
 | 152 | 	put_driver(drv); | 
 | 153 | 	return err; | 
 | 154 | } | 
 | 155 |  | 
 | 156 | Sometimes you need to keep a running counter of the device instance. This is | 
 | 157 | commonly used to map a device instance to an index of a module option array. | 
 | 158 |  | 
 | 159 | The recommended approach is as follows: | 
 | 160 |  | 
 | 161 | static atomic_t drv_instance = ATOMIC_INIT(0); | 
 | 162 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | static int __devinit drv_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | 				const struct pci_device_id *pci_id) | 
 | 165 | { | 
 | 166 | 	... | 
 | 167 | 	state->instance = atomic_inc_return(&drv_instance) - 1; | 
 | 168 | } | 
 | 169 |  | 
 | 170 |  | 
 | 171 | struct v4l2_subdev | 
 | 172 | ------------------ | 
 | 173 |  | 
 | 174 | Many drivers need to communicate with sub-devices. These devices can do all | 
 | 175 | sort of tasks, but most commonly they handle audio and/or video muxing, | 
 | 176 | encoding or decoding. For webcams common sub-devices are sensors and camera | 
 | 177 | controllers. | 
 | 178 |  | 
 | 179 | Usually these are I2C devices, but not necessarily. In order to provide the | 
 | 180 | driver with a consistent interface to these sub-devices the v4l2_subdev struct | 
 | 181 | (v4l2-subdev.h) was created. | 
 | 182 |  | 
 | 183 | Each sub-device driver must have a v4l2_subdev struct. This struct can be | 
 | 184 | stand-alone for simple sub-devices or it might be embedded in a larger struct | 
 | 185 | if more state information needs to be stored. Usually there is a low-level | 
 | 186 | device struct (e.g. i2c_client) that contains the device data as setup | 
 | 187 | by the kernel. It is recommended to store that pointer in the private | 
 | 188 | data of v4l2_subdev using v4l2_set_subdevdata(). That makes it easy to go | 
 | 189 | from a v4l2_subdev to the actual low-level bus-specific device data. | 
 | 190 |  | 
 | 191 | You also need a way to go from the low-level struct to v4l2_subdev. For the | 
 | 192 | common i2c_client struct the i2c_set_clientdata() call is used to store a | 
 | 193 | v4l2_subdev pointer, for other busses you may have to use other methods. | 
 | 194 |  | 
| Laurent Pinchart | 692d552 | 2010-07-30 17:24:55 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | Bridges might also need to store per-subdev private data, such as a pointer to | 
 | 196 | bridge-specific per-subdev private data. The v4l2_subdev structure provides | 
 | 197 | host private data for that purpose that can be accessed with | 
 | 198 | v4l2_get_subdev_hostdata() and v4l2_set_subdev_hostdata(). | 
 | 199 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | From the bridge driver perspective you load the sub-device module and somehow | 
 | 201 | obtain the v4l2_subdev pointer. For i2c devices this is easy: you call | 
 | 202 | i2c_get_clientdata(). For other busses something similar needs to be done. | 
 | 203 | Helper functions exists for sub-devices on an I2C bus that do most of this | 
 | 204 | tricky work for you. | 
 | 205 |  | 
 | 206 | Each v4l2_subdev contains function pointers that sub-device drivers can | 
 | 207 | implement (or leave NULL if it is not applicable). Since sub-devices can do | 
 | 208 | so many different things and you do not want to end up with a huge ops struct | 
 | 209 | of which only a handful of ops are commonly implemented, the function pointers | 
 | 210 | are sorted according to category and each category has its own ops struct. | 
 | 211 |  | 
 | 212 | The top-level ops struct contains pointers to the category ops structs, which | 
 | 213 | may be NULL if the subdev driver does not support anything from that category. | 
 | 214 |  | 
 | 215 | It looks like this: | 
 | 216 |  | 
 | 217 | struct v4l2_subdev_core_ops { | 
| Hans Verkuil | aecde8b | 2008-12-30 07:14:19 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | 	int (*g_chip_ident)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, struct v4l2_dbg_chip_ident *chip); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | 	int (*log_status)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd); | 
 | 220 | 	int (*init)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, u32 val); | 
 | 221 | 	... | 
 | 222 | }; | 
 | 223 |  | 
 | 224 | struct v4l2_subdev_tuner_ops { | 
 | 225 | 	... | 
 | 226 | }; | 
 | 227 |  | 
 | 228 | struct v4l2_subdev_audio_ops { | 
 | 229 | 	... | 
 | 230 | }; | 
 | 231 |  | 
 | 232 | struct v4l2_subdev_video_ops { | 
 | 233 | 	... | 
 | 234 | }; | 
 | 235 |  | 
 | 236 | struct v4l2_subdev_ops { | 
 | 237 | 	const struct v4l2_subdev_core_ops  *core; | 
 | 238 | 	const struct v4l2_subdev_tuner_ops *tuner; | 
 | 239 | 	const struct v4l2_subdev_audio_ops *audio; | 
 | 240 | 	const struct v4l2_subdev_video_ops *video; | 
 | 241 | }; | 
 | 242 |  | 
 | 243 | The core ops are common to all subdevs, the other categories are implemented | 
 | 244 | depending on the sub-device. E.g. a video device is unlikely to support the | 
 | 245 | audio ops and vice versa. | 
 | 246 |  | 
 | 247 | This setup limits the number of function pointers while still making it easy | 
 | 248 | to add new ops and categories. | 
 | 249 |  | 
 | 250 | A sub-device driver initializes the v4l2_subdev struct using: | 
 | 251 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | 	v4l2_subdev_init(sd, &ops); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 253 |  | 
 | 254 | Afterwards you need to initialize subdev->name with a unique name and set the | 
 | 255 | module owner. This is done for you if you use the i2c helper functions. | 
 | 256 |  | 
 | 257 | A device (bridge) driver needs to register the v4l2_subdev with the | 
 | 258 | v4l2_device: | 
 | 259 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | 	int err = v4l2_device_register_subdev(v4l2_dev, sd); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 261 |  | 
 | 262 | This can fail if the subdev module disappeared before it could be registered. | 
 | 263 | After this function was called successfully the subdev->dev field points to | 
 | 264 | the v4l2_device. | 
 | 265 |  | 
 | 266 | You can unregister a sub-device using: | 
 | 267 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | 	v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 269 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | Afterwards the subdev module can be unloaded and sd->dev == NULL. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 271 |  | 
 | 272 | You can call an ops function either directly: | 
 | 273 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | 	err = sd->ops->core->g_chip_ident(sd, &chip); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 275 |  | 
 | 276 | but it is better and easier to use this macro: | 
 | 277 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | 	err = v4l2_subdev_call(sd, core, g_chip_ident, &chip); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 279 |  | 
 | 280 | The macro will to the right NULL pointer checks and returns -ENODEV if subdev | 
 | 281 | is NULL, -ENOIOCTLCMD if either subdev->core or subdev->core->g_chip_ident is | 
 | 282 | NULL, or the actual result of the subdev->ops->core->g_chip_ident ops. | 
 | 283 |  | 
 | 284 | It is also possible to call all or a subset of the sub-devices: | 
 | 285 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | 	v4l2_device_call_all(v4l2_dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 287 |  | 
 | 288 | Any subdev that does not support this ops is skipped and error results are | 
 | 289 | ignored. If you want to check for errors use this: | 
 | 290 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | 	err = v4l2_device_call_until_err(v4l2_dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 292 |  | 
 | 293 | Any error except -ENOIOCTLCMD will exit the loop with that error. If no | 
 | 294 | errors (except -ENOIOCTLCMD) occured, then 0 is returned. | 
 | 295 |  | 
 | 296 | The second argument to both calls is a group ID. If 0, then all subdevs are | 
 | 297 | called. If non-zero, then only those whose group ID match that value will | 
| Hans Verkuil | b016760 | 2009-02-14 12:00:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | be called. Before a bridge driver registers a subdev it can set sd->grp_id | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | to whatever value it wants (it's 0 by default). This value is owned by the | 
 | 300 | bridge driver and the sub-device driver will never modify or use it. | 
 | 301 |  | 
 | 302 | The group ID gives the bridge driver more control how callbacks are called. | 
 | 303 | For example, there may be multiple audio chips on a board, each capable of | 
 | 304 | changing the volume. But usually only one will actually be used when the | 
 | 305 | user want to change the volume. You can set the group ID for that subdev to | 
 | 306 | e.g. AUDIO_CONTROLLER and specify that as the group ID value when calling | 
 | 307 | v4l2_device_call_all(). That ensures that it will only go to the subdev | 
 | 308 | that needs it. | 
 | 309 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 98ec633 | 2009-03-08 17:02:10 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | If the sub-device needs to notify its v4l2_device parent of an event, then | 
 | 311 | it can call v4l2_subdev_notify(sd, notification, arg). This macro checks | 
 | 312 | whether there is a notify() callback defined and returns -ENODEV if not. | 
 | 313 | Otherwise the result of the notify() call is returned. | 
 | 314 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | The advantage of using v4l2_subdev is that it is a generic struct and does | 
 | 316 | not contain any knowledge about the underlying hardware. So a driver might | 
 | 317 | contain several subdevs that use an I2C bus, but also a subdev that is | 
 | 318 | controlled through GPIO pins. This distinction is only relevant when setting | 
 | 319 | up the device, but once the subdev is registered it is completely transparent. | 
 | 320 |  | 
 | 321 |  | 
 | 322 | I2C sub-device drivers | 
 | 323 | ---------------------- | 
 | 324 |  | 
 | 325 | Since these drivers are so common, special helper functions are available to | 
 | 326 | ease the use of these drivers (v4l2-common.h). | 
 | 327 |  | 
 | 328 | The recommended method of adding v4l2_subdev support to an I2C driver is to | 
 | 329 | embed the v4l2_subdev struct into the state struct that is created for each | 
 | 330 | I2C device instance. Very simple devices have no state struct and in that case | 
 | 331 | you can just create a v4l2_subdev directly. | 
 | 332 |  | 
 | 333 | A typical state struct would look like this (where 'chipname' is replaced by | 
 | 334 | the name of the chip): | 
 | 335 |  | 
 | 336 | struct chipname_state { | 
 | 337 | 	struct v4l2_subdev sd; | 
 | 338 | 	...  /* additional state fields */ | 
 | 339 | }; | 
 | 340 |  | 
 | 341 | Initialize the v4l2_subdev struct as follows: | 
 | 342 |  | 
 | 343 | 	v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&state->sd, client, subdev_ops); | 
 | 344 |  | 
 | 345 | This function will fill in all the fields of v4l2_subdev and ensure that the | 
 | 346 | v4l2_subdev and i2c_client both point to one another. | 
 | 347 |  | 
 | 348 | You should also add a helper inline function to go from a v4l2_subdev pointer | 
 | 349 | to a chipname_state struct: | 
 | 350 |  | 
 | 351 | static inline struct chipname_state *to_state(struct v4l2_subdev *sd) | 
 | 352 | { | 
 | 353 | 	return container_of(sd, struct chipname_state, sd); | 
 | 354 | } | 
 | 355 |  | 
 | 356 | Use this to go from the v4l2_subdev struct to the i2c_client struct: | 
 | 357 |  | 
 | 358 | 	struct i2c_client *client = v4l2_get_subdevdata(sd); | 
 | 359 |  | 
 | 360 | And this to go from an i2c_client to a v4l2_subdev struct: | 
 | 361 |  | 
 | 362 | 	struct v4l2_subdev *sd = i2c_get_clientdata(client); | 
 | 363 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | Make sure to call v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) when the remove() callback | 
 | 365 | is called. This will unregister the sub-device from the bridge driver. It is | 
 | 366 | safe to call this even if the sub-device was never registered. | 
 | 367 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | f5360bd | 2009-01-15 06:09:05 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | You need to do this because when the bridge driver destroys the i2c adapter | 
 | 369 | the remove() callbacks are called of the i2c devices on that adapter. | 
 | 370 | After that the corresponding v4l2_subdev structures are invalid, so they | 
 | 371 | have to be unregistered first. Calling v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) | 
 | 372 | from the remove() callback ensures that this is always done correctly. | 
 | 373 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 374 |  | 
 | 375 | The bridge driver also has some helper functions it can use: | 
 | 376 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | e6574f2 | 2009-04-01 03:57:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | struct v4l2_subdev *sd = v4l2_i2c_new_subdev(v4l2_dev, adapter, | 
| Hans Verkuil | 53dacb1 | 2009-08-10 02:49:08 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | 	       "module_foo", "chipid", 0x36, NULL); | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 379 |  | 
 | 380 | This loads the given module (can be NULL if no module needs to be loaded) and | 
 | 381 | calls i2c_new_device() with the given i2c_adapter and chip/address arguments. | 
| Hans Verkuil | e6574f2 | 2009-04-01 03:57:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | If all goes well, then it registers the subdev with the v4l2_device. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 383 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 53dacb1 | 2009-08-10 02:49:08 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | You can also use the last argument of v4l2_i2c_new_subdev() to pass an array | 
 | 385 | of possible I2C addresses that it should probe. These probe addresses are | 
 | 386 | only used if the previous argument is 0. A non-zero argument means that you | 
 | 387 | know the exact i2c address so in that case no probing will take place. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 388 |  | 
 | 389 | Both functions return NULL if something went wrong. | 
 | 390 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 53dacb1 | 2009-08-10 02:49:08 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | Note that the chipid you pass to v4l2_i2c_new_subdev() is usually | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2c79252 | 2009-03-12 18:34:19 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | the same as the module name. It allows you to specify a chip variant, e.g. | 
 | 393 | "saa7114" or "saa7115". In general though the i2c driver autodetects this. | 
 | 394 | The use of chipid is something that needs to be looked at more closely at a | 
 | 395 | later date. It differs between i2c drivers and as such can be confusing. | 
 | 396 | To see which chip variants are supported you can look in the i2c driver code | 
 | 397 | for the i2c_device_id table. This lists all the possibilities. | 
 | 398 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2c0b19a | 2009-06-09 17:29:29 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | There are two more helper functions: | 
 | 400 |  | 
 | 401 | v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg: this function adds new irq and platform_data | 
 | 402 | arguments and has both 'addr' and 'probed_addrs' arguments: if addr is not | 
 | 403 | 0 then that will be used (non-probing variant), otherwise the probed_addrs | 
 | 404 | are probed. | 
 | 405 |  | 
 | 406 | For example: this will probe for address 0x10: | 
 | 407 |  | 
 | 408 | struct v4l2_subdev *sd = v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg(v4l2_dev, adapter, | 
 | 409 | 	       "module_foo", "chipid", 0, NULL, 0, I2C_ADDRS(0x10)); | 
 | 410 |  | 
 | 411 | v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board uses an i2c_board_info struct which is passed | 
 | 412 | to the i2c driver and replaces the irq, platform_data and addr arguments. | 
 | 413 |  | 
 | 414 | If the subdev supports the s_config core ops, then that op is called with | 
 | 415 | the irq and platform_data arguments after the subdev was setup. The older | 
 | 416 | v4l2_i2c_new_(probed_)subdev functions will call s_config as well, but with | 
 | 417 | irq set to 0 and platform_data set to NULL. | 
 | 418 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 2a1fcdf | 2008-11-29 21:36:58 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | struct video_device | 
 | 420 | ------------------- | 
 | 421 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 422 | The actual device nodes in the /dev directory are created using the | 
 | 423 | video_device struct (v4l2-dev.h). This struct can either be allocated | 
 | 424 | dynamically or embedded in a larger struct. | 
 | 425 |  | 
 | 426 | To allocate it dynamically use: | 
 | 427 |  | 
 | 428 | 	struct video_device *vdev = video_device_alloc(); | 
 | 429 |  | 
 | 430 | 	if (vdev == NULL) | 
 | 431 | 		return -ENOMEM; | 
 | 432 |  | 
 | 433 | 	vdev->release = video_device_release; | 
 | 434 |  | 
 | 435 | If you embed it in a larger struct, then you must set the release() | 
 | 436 | callback to your own function: | 
 | 437 |  | 
 | 438 | 	struct video_device *vdev = &my_vdev->vdev; | 
 | 439 |  | 
 | 440 | 	vdev->release = my_vdev_release; | 
 | 441 |  | 
 | 442 | The release callback must be set and it is called when the last user | 
 | 443 | of the video device exits. | 
 | 444 |  | 
 | 445 | The default video_device_release() callback just calls kfree to free the | 
 | 446 | allocated memory. | 
 | 447 |  | 
 | 448 | You should also set these fields: | 
 | 449 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | dfa9a5a | 2008-12-23 12:17:23 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | - v4l2_dev: set to the v4l2_device parent device. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | - name: set to something descriptive and unique. | 
| Hans Verkuil | c7dd09d | 2008-12-23 13:42:25 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | - fops: set to the v4l2_file_operations struct. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | - ioctl_ops: if you use the v4l2_ioctl_ops to simplify ioctl maintenance | 
 | 454 |   (highly recommended to use this and it might become compulsory in the | 
 | 455 |   future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct. | 
| Hans Verkuil | ee6869a | 2010-09-26 08:47:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | - lock: leave to NULL if you want to do all the locking in the driver. | 
 | 457 |   Otherwise you give it a pointer to a struct mutex_lock and before any | 
 | 458 |   of the v4l2_file_operations is called this lock will be taken by the | 
 | 459 |   core and released afterwards. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 0057596 | 2009-03-13 10:03:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 460 | - parent: you only set this if v4l2_device was registered with NULL as | 
 | 461 |   the parent device struct. This only happens in cases where one hardware | 
 | 462 |   device has multiple PCI devices that all share the same v4l2_device core. | 
 | 463 |  | 
 | 464 |   The cx88 driver is an example of this: one core v4l2_device struct, but | 
 | 465 |   it is used by both an raw video PCI device (cx8800) and a MPEG PCI device | 
 | 466 |   (cx8802). Since the v4l2_device cannot be associated with a particular | 
 | 467 |   PCI device it is setup without a parent device. But when the struct | 
 | 468 |   video_device is setup you do know which parent PCI device to use. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 469 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | c7dd09d | 2008-12-23 13:42:25 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 470 | If you use v4l2_ioctl_ops, then you should set either .unlocked_ioctl or | 
 | 471 | .ioctl to video_ioctl2 in your v4l2_file_operations struct. | 
 | 472 |  | 
 | 473 | The v4l2_file_operations struct is a subset of file_operations. The main | 
 | 474 | difference is that the inode argument is omitted since it is never used. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 475 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | ee6869a | 2010-09-26 08:47:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | v4l2_file_operations and locking | 
 | 477 | -------------------------------- | 
 | 478 |  | 
 | 479 | You can set a pointer to a mutex_lock in struct video_device. Usually this | 
 | 480 | will be either a top-level mutex or a mutex per device node. If you want | 
 | 481 | finer-grained locking then you have to set it to NULL and do you own locking. | 
 | 482 |  | 
 | 483 | If a lock is specified then all file operations will be serialized on that | 
 | 484 | lock. If you use videobuf then you must pass the same lock to the videobuf | 
 | 485 | queue initialize function: if videobuf has to wait for a frame to arrive, then | 
 | 486 | it will temporarily unlock the lock and relock it afterwards. If your driver | 
 | 487 | also waits in the code, then you should do the same to allow other processes | 
 | 488 | to access the device node while the first process is waiting for something. | 
 | 489 |  | 
 | 490 | The implementation of a hotplug disconnect should also take the lock before | 
| Hans Verkuil | 9c84d89 | 2010-10-11 12:36:37 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | calling v4l2_device_disconnect. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 492 |  | 
 | 493 | video_device registration | 
 | 494 | ------------------------- | 
 | 495 |  | 
 | 496 | Next you register the video device: this will create the character device | 
 | 497 | for you. | 
 | 498 |  | 
 | 499 | 	err = video_register_device(vdev, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, -1); | 
 | 500 | 	if (err) { | 
| Hans Verkuil | 50a2a8b | 2008-12-22 09:13:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | 		video_device_release(vdev); /* or kfree(my_vdev); */ | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | 		return err; | 
 | 503 | 	} | 
 | 504 |  | 
 | 505 | Which device is registered depends on the type argument. The following | 
 | 506 | types exist: | 
 | 507 |  | 
 | 508 | VFL_TYPE_GRABBER: videoX for video input/output devices | 
 | 509 | VFL_TYPE_VBI: vbiX for vertical blank data (i.e. closed captions, teletext) | 
 | 510 | VFL_TYPE_RADIO: radioX for radio tuners | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 511 |  | 
 | 512 | The last argument gives you a certain amount of control over the device | 
| Hans Verkuil | 6b5270d | 2009-09-06 07:54:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | device node number used (i.e. the X in videoX). Normally you will pass -1 | 
 | 514 | to let the v4l2 framework pick the first free number. But sometimes users | 
 | 515 | want to select a specific node number. It is common that drivers allow | 
 | 516 | the user to select a specific device node number through a driver module | 
 | 517 | option. That number is then passed to this function and video_register_device | 
 | 518 | will attempt to select that device node number. If that number was already | 
 | 519 | in use, then the next free device node number will be selected and it | 
 | 520 | will send a warning to the kernel log. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 521 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 6b5270d | 2009-09-06 07:54:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 522 | Another use-case is if a driver creates many devices. In that case it can | 
 | 523 | be useful to place different video devices in separate ranges. For example, | 
 | 524 | video capture devices start at 0, video output devices start at 16. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 22e2212 | 2009-09-06 07:13:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | So you can use the last argument to specify a minimum device node number | 
 | 526 | and the v4l2 framework will try to pick the first free number that is equal | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | or higher to what you passed. If that fails, then it will just pick the | 
 | 528 | first free number. | 
 | 529 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 6b5270d | 2009-09-06 07:54:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | Since in this case you do not care about a warning about not being able | 
 | 531 | to select the specified device node number, you can call the function | 
 | 532 | video_register_device_no_warn() instead. | 
 | 533 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | Whenever a device node is created some attributes are also created for you. | 
 | 535 | If you look in /sys/class/video4linux you see the devices. Go into e.g. | 
 | 536 | video0 and you will see 'name' and 'index' attributes. The 'name' attribute | 
| Hans Verkuil | 7ae0cd9 | 2009-06-19 11:32:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 537 | is the 'name' field of the video_device struct. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 538 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 7ae0cd9 | 2009-06-19 11:32:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | The 'index' attribute is the index of the device node: for each call to | 
 | 540 | video_register_device() the index is just increased by 1. The first video | 
 | 541 | device node you register always starts with index 0. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 542 |  | 
 | 543 | Users can setup udev rules that utilize the index attribute to make fancy | 
 | 544 | device names (e.g. 'mpegX' for MPEG video capture device nodes). | 
 | 545 |  | 
 | 546 | After the device was successfully registered, then you can use these fields: | 
 | 547 |  | 
 | 548 | - vfl_type: the device type passed to video_register_device. | 
 | 549 | - minor: the assigned device minor number. | 
| Hans Verkuil | 22e2212 | 2009-09-06 07:13:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | - num: the device node number (i.e. the X in videoX). | 
| Hans Verkuil | 7ae0cd9 | 2009-06-19 11:32:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | - index: the device index number. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 552 |  | 
 | 553 | If the registration failed, then you need to call video_device_release() | 
 | 554 | to free the allocated video_device struct, or free your own struct if the | 
 | 555 | video_device was embedded in it. The vdev->release() callback will never | 
 | 556 | be called if the registration failed, nor should you ever attempt to | 
 | 557 | unregister the device if the registration failed. | 
 | 558 |  | 
 | 559 |  | 
 | 560 | video_device cleanup | 
 | 561 | -------------------- | 
 | 562 |  | 
 | 563 | When the video device nodes have to be removed, either during the unload | 
 | 564 | of the driver or because the USB device was disconnected, then you should | 
 | 565 | unregister them: | 
 | 566 |  | 
 | 567 | 	video_unregister_device(vdev); | 
 | 568 |  | 
 | 569 | This will remove the device nodes from sysfs (causing udev to remove them | 
 | 570 | from /dev). | 
 | 571 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | dd1ad94 | 2010-04-06 11:44:39 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. However, | 
 | 573 | in the case of USB devices some application might still have one of these | 
| Hans Verkuil | d69f271 | 2010-09-26 08:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations (except | 
 | 575 | release, of course) will return an error as well. | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 576 |  | 
 | 577 | When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release() | 
 | 578 | callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there. | 
 | 579 |  | 
 | 580 |  | 
 | 581 | video_device helper functions | 
 | 582 | ----------------------------- | 
 | 583 |  | 
 | 584 | There are a few useful helper functions: | 
 | 585 |  | 
| Laurent Pinchart | eac8ea5 | 2009-11-27 13:56:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | - file/video_device private data | 
 | 587 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | You can set/get driver private data in the video_device struct using: | 
 | 589 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | 89aec3e | 2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | void *video_get_drvdata(struct video_device *vdev); | 
 | 591 | void video_set_drvdata(struct video_device *vdev, void *data); | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 592 |  | 
 | 593 | Note that you can safely call video_set_drvdata() before calling | 
 | 594 | video_register_device(). | 
 | 595 |  | 
 | 596 | And this function: | 
 | 597 |  | 
 | 598 | struct video_device *video_devdata(struct file *file); | 
 | 599 |  | 
 | 600 | returns the video_device belonging to the file struct. | 
 | 601 |  | 
| Laurent Pinchart | eac8ea5 | 2009-11-27 13:56:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | The video_drvdata function combines video_get_drvdata with video_devdata: | 
| Hans Verkuil | a47ddf1 | 2008-12-19 10:20:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 603 |  | 
 | 604 | void *video_drvdata(struct file *file); | 
 | 605 |  | 
 | 606 | You can go from a video_device struct to the v4l2_device struct using: | 
 | 607 |  | 
| Hans Verkuil | dfa9a5a | 2008-12-23 12:17:23 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev = vdev->v4l2_dev; | 
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 44061c0 | 2009-02-14 07:29:07 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 609 |  | 
| Laurent Pinchart | eac8ea5 | 2009-11-27 13:56:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | - Device node name | 
 | 611 |  | 
 | 612 | The video_device node kernel name can be retrieved using | 
 | 613 |  | 
 | 614 | const char *video_device_node_name(struct video_device *vdev); | 
 | 615 |  | 
 | 616 | The name is used as a hint by userspace tools such as udev. The function | 
 | 617 | should be used where possible instead of accessing the video_device::num and | 
 | 618 | video_device::minor fields. | 
 | 619 |  | 
 | 620 |  | 
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 44061c0 | 2009-02-14 07:29:07 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 621 | video buffer helper functions | 
 | 622 | ----------------------------- | 
 | 623 |  | 
| Jonathan Corbet | 4b586a3 | 2010-02-22 17:47:46 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | The v4l2 core API provides a set of standard methods (called "videobuf") | 
 | 625 | for dealing with video buffers. Those methods allow a driver to implement | 
 | 626 | read(), mmap() and overlay() in a consistent way.  There are currently | 
 | 627 | methods for using video buffers on devices that supports DMA with | 
 | 628 | scatter/gather method (videobuf-dma-sg), DMA with linear access | 
 | 629 | (videobuf-dma-contig), and vmalloced buffers, mostly used on USB drivers | 
 | 630 | (videobuf-vmalloc). | 
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 44061c0 | 2009-02-14 07:29:07 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 631 |  | 
| Jonathan Corbet | 4b586a3 | 2010-02-22 17:47:46 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 632 | Please see Documentation/video4linux/videobuf for more information on how | 
 | 633 | to use the videobuf layer. | 
| Sakari Ailus | 6cd84b7 | 2010-03-20 18:28:48 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 634 |  | 
 | 635 | struct v4l2_fh | 
 | 636 | -------------- | 
 | 637 |  | 
 | 638 | struct v4l2_fh provides a way to easily keep file handle specific data | 
 | 639 | that is used by the V4L2 framework. Using v4l2_fh is optional for | 
 | 640 | drivers. | 
 | 641 |  | 
 | 642 | The users of v4l2_fh (in the V4L2 framework, not the driver) know | 
 | 643 | whether a driver uses v4l2_fh as its file->private_data pointer by | 
 | 644 | testing the V4L2_FL_USES_V4L2_FH bit in video_device->flags. | 
 | 645 |  | 
 | 646 | Useful functions: | 
 | 647 |  | 
 | 648 | - v4l2_fh_init() | 
 | 649 |  | 
 | 650 |   Initialise the file handle. This *MUST* be performed in the driver's | 
 | 651 |   v4l2_file_operations->open() handler. | 
 | 652 |  | 
 | 653 | - v4l2_fh_add() | 
 | 654 |  | 
 | 655 |   Add a v4l2_fh to video_device file handle list. May be called after | 
 | 656 |   initialising the file handle. | 
 | 657 |  | 
 | 658 | - v4l2_fh_del() | 
 | 659 |  | 
 | 660 |   Unassociate the file handle from video_device(). The file handle | 
 | 661 |   exit function may now be called. | 
 | 662 |  | 
 | 663 | - v4l2_fh_exit() | 
 | 664 |  | 
 | 665 |   Uninitialise the file handle. After uninitialisation the v4l2_fh | 
 | 666 |   memory can be freed. | 
 | 667 |  | 
 | 668 | struct v4l2_fh is allocated as a part of the driver's own file handle | 
 | 669 | structure and is set to file->private_data in the driver's open | 
 | 670 | function by the driver. Drivers can extract their own file handle | 
 | 671 | structure by using the container_of macro. Example: | 
 | 672 |  | 
 | 673 | struct my_fh { | 
 | 674 | 	int blah; | 
 | 675 | 	struct v4l2_fh fh; | 
 | 676 | }; | 
 | 677 |  | 
 | 678 | ... | 
 | 679 |  | 
 | 680 | int my_open(struct file *file) | 
 | 681 | { | 
 | 682 | 	struct my_fh *my_fh; | 
 | 683 | 	struct video_device *vfd; | 
 | 684 | 	int ret; | 
 | 685 |  | 
 | 686 | 	... | 
 | 687 |  | 
 | 688 | 	ret = v4l2_fh_init(&my_fh->fh, vfd); | 
 | 689 | 	if (ret) | 
 | 690 | 		return ret; | 
 | 691 |  | 
 | 692 | 	v4l2_fh_add(&my_fh->fh); | 
 | 693 |  | 
 | 694 | 	file->private_data = &my_fh->fh; | 
 | 695 |  | 
 | 696 | 	... | 
 | 697 | } | 
 | 698 |  | 
 | 699 | int my_release(struct file *file) | 
 | 700 | { | 
 | 701 | 	struct v4l2_fh *fh = file->private_data; | 
 | 702 | 	struct my_fh *my_fh = container_of(fh, struct my_fh, fh); | 
 | 703 |  | 
 | 704 | 	... | 
 | 705 | } | 
| Sakari Ailus | dd96608 | 2010-03-27 10:58:24 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 706 |  | 
 | 707 | V4L2 events | 
 | 708 | ----------- | 
 | 709 |  | 
 | 710 | The V4L2 events provide a generic way to pass events to user space. | 
 | 711 | The driver must use v4l2_fh to be able to support V4L2 events. | 
 | 712 |  | 
 | 713 | Useful functions: | 
 | 714 |  | 
 | 715 | - v4l2_event_alloc() | 
 | 716 |  | 
 | 717 |   To use events, the driver must allocate events for the file handle. By | 
 | 718 |   calling the function more than once, the driver may assure that at least n | 
 | 719 |   events in total have been allocated. The function may not be called in | 
 | 720 |   atomic context. | 
 | 721 |  | 
 | 722 | - v4l2_event_queue() | 
 | 723 |  | 
 | 724 |   Queue events to video device. The driver's only responsibility is to fill | 
 | 725 |   in the type and the data fields. The other fields will be filled in by | 
 | 726 |   V4L2. | 
 | 727 |  | 
 | 728 | - v4l2_event_subscribe() | 
 | 729 |  | 
 | 730 |   The video_device->ioctl_ops->vidioc_subscribe_event must check the driver | 
 | 731 |   is able to produce events with specified event id. Then it calls | 
 | 732 |   v4l2_event_subscribe() to subscribe the event. | 
 | 733 |  | 
 | 734 | - v4l2_event_unsubscribe() | 
 | 735 |  | 
 | 736 |   vidioc_unsubscribe_event in struct v4l2_ioctl_ops. A driver may use | 
 | 737 |   v4l2_event_unsubscribe() directly unless it wants to be involved in | 
 | 738 |   unsubscription process. | 
 | 739 |  | 
 | 740 |   The special type V4L2_EVENT_ALL may be used to unsubscribe all events. The | 
 | 741 |   drivers may want to handle this in a special way. | 
 | 742 |  | 
 | 743 | - v4l2_event_pending() | 
 | 744 |  | 
 | 745 |   Returns the number of pending events. Useful when implementing poll. | 
 | 746 |  | 
 | 747 | Drivers do not initialise events directly. The events are initialised | 
 | 748 | through v4l2_fh_init() if video_device->ioctl_ops->vidioc_subscribe_event is | 
 | 749 | non-NULL. This *MUST* be performed in the driver's | 
 | 750 | v4l2_file_operations->open() handler. | 
 | 751 |  | 
 | 752 | Events are delivered to user space through the poll system call. The driver | 
 | 753 | can use v4l2_fh->events->wait wait_queue_head_t as the argument for | 
 | 754 | poll_wait(). | 
 | 755 |  | 
 | 756 | There are standard and private events. New standard events must use the | 
 | 757 | smallest available event type. The drivers must allocate their events from | 
 | 758 | their own class starting from class base. Class base is | 
 | 759 | V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START + n * 1000 where n is the lowest available number. | 
 | 760 | The first event type in the class is reserved for future use, so the first | 
 | 761 | available event type is 'class base + 1'. | 
 | 762 |  | 
 | 763 | An example on how the V4L2 events may be used can be found in the OMAP | 
 | 764 | 3 ISP driver available at <URL:http://gitorious.org/omap3camera> as of | 
 | 765 | writing this. |