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3 V4L2 sub-devices
4 ----------------
6 Many drivers need to communicate with sub-devices. These devices can do all
8 encoding or decoding. For webcams common sub-devices are sensors and camera
12 driver with a consistent interface to these sub-devices the
13 :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct (v4l2-subdev.h) was created.
15 Each sub-device driver must have a :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct. This struct
16 can be stand-alone for simple sub-devices or it might be embedded in a larger
18 low-level device struct (e.g. ``i2c_client``) that contains the device data as
21 it easy to go from a :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` to the actual low-level bus-specific
24 You also need a way to go from the low-level struct to :c:type:`v4l2_subdev`.
29 Bridges might also need to store per-subdev private data, such as a pointer to
30 bridge-specific per-subdev private data. The :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` structure
34 From the bridge driver perspective, you load the sub-device module and somehow
37 Helper functions exists for sub-devices on an I2C bus that do most of this
40 Each :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` contains function pointers that sub-device drivers
41 can implement (or leave ``NULL`` if it is not applicable). Since sub-devices can
46 The top-level ops struct contains pointers to the category ops structs, which
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84 depending on the sub-device. E.g. a video device is unlikely to support the
90 A sub-device driver initializes the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct using:
96 Afterwards you need to initialize :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->name with a
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107 struct media_pad *pads = &my_sd->pads;
110 err = media_entity_pads_init(&sd->entity, npads, pads);
119 Don't forget to cleanup the media entity before the sub-device is destroyed:
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123 media_entity_cleanup(&sd->entity);
132 sub-devices. The driver is still responsible for validating the correctness
133 of the format configuration between sub-devices and video nodes.
154 in DT as I2C device nodes. The API used in this second case is described further
158 run-time bridge-subdevice interaction is in both cases the same.
167 After this function was called successfully the subdev->dev field points to
170 If the v4l2_device parent device has a non-NULL mdev field, the sub-device
173 You can unregister a sub-device using:
180 :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->dev == ``NULL``.
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186 err = sd->ops->core->g_std(sd, &norm);
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194 The macro will to the right ``NULL`` pointer checks and returns ``-ENODEV``
195 if :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>` is ``NULL``, ``-ENOIOCTLCMD`` if either
196 :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->core or :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->core->g_std is ``NULL``, or the act…
197 :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->ops->core->g_std ops.
199 It is also possible to call all or a subset of the sub-devices:
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212 Any error except ``-ENOIOCTLCMD`` will exit the loop with that error. If no
213 errors (except ``-ENOIOCTLCMD``) occurred, then 0 is returned.
216 called. If non-zero, then only those whose group ID match that value will
218 :c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`->grp_id to whatever value it wants (it's 0 by
219 default). This value is owned by the bridge driver and the sub-device driver
230 If the sub-device needs to notify its v4l2_device parent of an event, then
232 whether there is a ``notify()`` callback defined and returns ``-ENODEV`` if not.
245 the driver might decide to return ``-EPROBE_DEFER`` to request further reprobing
275 V4L2 sub-device userspace API
276 -----------------------------
279 V4L2 sub-devices can also be controlled directly by userspace applications.
281 Device nodes named ``v4l-subdev``\ *X* can be created in ``/dev`` to access
282 sub-devices directly. If a sub-device supports direct userspace configuration
285 After registering sub-devices, the :c:type:`v4l2_device` driver can create
286 device nodes for all registered sub-devices marked with
288 :c:func:`v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes`. Those device nodes will be
289 automatically removed when sub-devices are unregistered.
303 controls implemented in the sub-device. Depending on the driver, those
305 nodes.
313 events generated by the sub-device. Depending on the driver, those
314 events can also be reported by one (or several) V4L2 device nodes.
316 Sub-device drivers that want to use events need to set the
319 the sub-device. After registration events can be queued as usual on the
327 All ioctls not in the above list are passed directly to the sub-device
331 I2C sub-device drivers
332 ----------------------
335 ease the use of these drivers (``v4l2-common.h``).
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356 v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&state->sd, client, subdev_ops);
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386 when the ``remove()`` callback is called. This will unregister the sub-device
387 from the bridge driver. It is safe to call this even if the sub-device was
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412 are only used if the previous argument is 0. A non-zero argument means that you
439 V4L2 sub-device functions and data structures
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442 .. kernel-doc:: include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
444 .. kernel-doc:: include/media/v4l2-async.h