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2011-10-19[media] videodev: fix a NULL pointer dereference in v4l2_device_release()Antonio Ospite
The change in 8280b66 does not cover the case when v4l2_dev is already NULL, fix that. With a Kinect sensor, seen as an USB camera using GSPCA in this context, a NULL pointer dereference BUG can be triggered by just unplugging the device after the camera driver has been loaded. Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-09-21[media] v4l: Fix use-after-free case in v4l2_device_releaseHans Verkuil
Drivers that have no v4l2_device release callback might free the v4l2_device instance in the video_device release callback. Make sure we don't access the v4l2_device instance after it gets freed. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-06-30[media] v4l: Don't access media entity after is has been destroyedLaurent Pinchart
Entities associated with video device nodes are unregistered in video_unregister_device(). This destroys the entity even though it can still be accessed through open video device nodes. Move the media_device_unregister_entity() call from video_unregister_device() to v4l2_device_release() to ensure that the entity isn't unregistered until the last reference to the video device is released. Also remove the media_entity_get()/put() calls from v4l2-dev.c. Those functions were designed for subdevs, to avoid a parent module from being removed while still accessible through board code. They're not currently needed for video device nodes, and will oops when a hotpluggable device is disconnected during streaming, as media_entity_put() called in v4l2_device_release() tries to access entity->parent->dev->driver which is set to NULL when the device is disconnected. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-05-20[media] Revert "V4L/DVB: v4l2-dev: remove get_unmapped_area"Bob Liu
This reverts commit c29fcff3daafbf46d64a543c1950bbd206ad8c1c. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-04-19[media] v4l: Don't register media entities for subdev device nodesLaurent Pinchart
Subdevs already have their own entity, don't register as second one when registering the subdev device node. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-22[media] v4l2: use new flag to enable core priority handlingHans Verkuil
Rather than guess which driver supports core priority handling, require drivers that do to explicitly set the V4L2_FL_USE_FH_PRIO flag in video_device. Updated the core prio handling accordingly and set the flag in the three drivers that do. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-22[media] v4l2-device: add kref and a release functionHans Verkuil
The video_device struct has proper ref counting and its release function will be called when the last user releases it. But no such support was available for struct v4l2_device. This made it hard to determine when a USB driver can release the device if it has multiple device nodes. With one device node it is easy of course, since when the device node is released, the whole device can be released. This patch adds refcounting to v4l2_device. When registering device nodes the v4l2_device refcount will be increased, when releasing device nodes it will be decreased. The (optional) release function will be called when the last device node was released. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-22[media] v4l2: add v4l2_prio_state to v4l2_device and video_deviceHans Verkuil
Integrate the v4l2_prio_state into the core, ready for use. One struct v4l2_prio_state is added to v4l2_device and a pointer to a prio state is added to video_device. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-22[media] v4l2_prio: move from v4l2-common to v4l2-devHans Verkuil
We are going to move priority handling into the v4l2 core. As a consequence the v4l2_prio helper functions need to be moved into the core videodev module as well to prevent circular dependencies. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-22[media] v4l: Make video_device inherit from media_entityLaurent Pinchart
V4L2 devices are media entities. As such they need to inherit from (include) the media_entity structure. When registering/unregistering the device, the media entity is automatically registered/unregistered. The entity is acquired on device open and released on device close. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-03-21[media] v4l: subdev: Add device node supportLaurent Pinchart
Create a device node named subdevX for every registered subdev. As the device node is registered before the subdev core::s_config function is called, return -EGAIN on open until initialization completes. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Vimarsh Zutshi <vimarsh.zutshi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-01-19[media] v4l2-dev: don't memset video_device.devHans Verkuil
Zeroing video_device.dev causes a memory leak if video_set_drvdata was called before video_register_device was called. video_set_drvdata calls dev_set_drvdata which allocates video_device.dev.p. memsetting this will prevent freeing of that memory. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-01[media] v4l2-dev: fix race conditionHans Verkuil
The unregister function had a race condition with the v4l2_open function. Ensure that both functions test and clear the REGISTER flag from within a critical section. Thanks to Laurent Pinchart for finding this race. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-01[media] V4L: improve the BKL replacement heuristicHans Verkuil
The BKL replacement mutex had some serious performance side-effects on V4L drivers. It is replaced by a better heuristic that works around the worst of the side-effects. Read the v4l2-dev.c comments for the whole sorry story. This is a temporary measure only until we can convert all v4l drivers to use unlocked_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-01[media] v4l2-dev: use mutex_lock_interruptible instead of plain mutex_lockHans Verkuil
Where reasonable use mutex_lock_interruptible instead of mutex_lock. Also fix the poll, read and write error codes when called with an unregistered device (e.g. after a USB device was disconnected). Poll must return POLLERR|POLLHUP and read/write must return -ENODEV. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-11-08[media] v4l: kill the BKLArnd Bergmann
All of the hard problems for BKL removal appear to be solved in the v4l-dvb/master tree. This removes the BKL from the various open functions that do not need it, or only use it to protect an open count. The zoran driver is nontrivial in this regard, so I introduce a new mutex that locks both the open/release and the ioctl functions. Someone with access to the hardware can probably improve that by using the existing lock in all cases. Finally, all drivers that still use the locked version of the ioctl function now get called under a new mutex instead of the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-10-21V4L/DVB: Fix a merge conflict that affects unlock_ioctlMauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-10-21V4L/DVB: v4l2: add core serialization lockHans Verkuil
Drivers can optionally set a pointer to a mutex in struct video_device. The core will use that to lock before calling open, read, write, unlocked_ioctl, poll, mmap or release. Updated the documentation as well and ensure that v4l2-event knows about the lock: it will unlock it before doing a blocking wait on an event and relock it afterwards. Ensure that the 'video_is_registered' check is done when the lock is held: a typical disconnect will take the lock as well before unregistering the device nodes, so to prevent race conditions the video_is_registered check should also be done with the lock held. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-10-21V4L/DVB: v4l2-dev: remove get_unmapped_areaHans Verkuil
The get_unmapped_area file operation is unused. Remove. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-10-21V4L/DVB: v4l2-dev: after a disconnect any ioctl call will be blockedHans Verkuil
Until now all fops except release and (unlocked_)ioctl returned an error after the device node was unregistered. Extend this as well to the ioctl fops. There is nothing useful that an application can do here and it complicates the driver code unnecessarily. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-10-21V4L/DVB: videotext: remove this obsolete APIHans Verkuil
Remove the vtx (aka videotext aka teletext) API from the v4l2 core. This API was scheduled for removal in kernel 2.6.35. The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support. Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249 has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked. In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there are no applications actually implementing this API. The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build around the sliced VBI API instead. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (94 commits) V4L/DVB: tvp7002: fix write to H-PLL Feedback Divider LSB register V4L/DVB: dvb: siano: free spinlock before schedule() V4L/DVB: media: video: pvrusb2: remove custom hex_to_bin() V4L/DVB: drivers: usbvideo: remove custom implementation of hex_to_bin() V4L/DVB: Report supported QAM modes on bt8xx V4L/DVB: media: ir-keytable: null dereference in debug code V4L/DVB: ivtv: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: ivtv: convert gpio subdev to new control framework V4L/DVB: wm8739: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: cs53l32a: convert to new control framework V4L/DVB: wm8775: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: cx2341x: convert to the control framework V4L/DVB: cx25840: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: cx25840/ivtv: replace ugly priv control with s_config V4L/DVB: saa717x: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: msp3400: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: saa7115: convert to the new control framework V4L/DVB: v4l2: hook up the new control framework into the core framework V4L/DVB: Documentation: add v4l2-controls.txt documenting the new controls API V4L/DVB: v4l2-ctrls: Whitespace cleanups ...
2010-08-08V4L/DVB: v4l2: hook up the new control framework into the core frameworkHans Verkuil
Add the calls needed to automatically merge subdev controls into a bridge control handler. Hook up the control framework in __video_ioctl2 and video_register_device. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-08-09Merge commit 'linus/master' into bkl/coreFrederic Weisbecker
Merge reason: The staging tree has introduced the easycap driver lately. We need the latest updates to pushdown the bkl in its ioctl helper.
2010-08-09v4l: Convert v4l2-dev to unlocked_ioctlArnd Bergmann
v4l2 implements two separate file operations for drivers that use locked and unlocked ioctl callbacks. Since we want to remove the ioctl file operation in favor of the unlocked variant, this separation no longer seems helpful. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-02V4L/DVB: v4l2-dev: fix memory leakAnatolij Gustschin
Since commit b4028437876866aba4747a655ede00f892089e14 the 'driver_data' field resides in device's struct device_private which may be allocated by dev_set_drvdata() if device_private struct was not allocated previously. dev_set_drvdata() is used in video_set_drvdata() to set the driver's private data pointer in v4l2 drivers. Setting the private data _before_ registering the v4l2 device results in a memory leak since __video_register_device() also calls video_set_drvdata(), but after zeroing the device structure. Thus, the reference to the previously allocated device_private struct goes lost and a new device_private will be allocated. All v4l drivers which call video_set_drvdata() _before_ calling video_register_device() are affected. The patch fixes __video_register_device() to preserve previously allocated device_private reference. Caught by kmemleak. Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-05-19V4L/DVB: v4l2-dev: remove unnecessary lock around atomic clear_bitHans Verkuil
No need to lock when unregistering the device: clear_bit is already an atomic operation. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-05-19V4L/DVB: V4L: File handlesSakari Ailus
This patch adds a list of v4l2_fh structures to every video_device. It allows using file handle related information in V4L2. The event interface is one example of such use. The use of v4l2_fh is not mandatory for drivers. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13552): v4l: Replace video_is_unregistered with video_is_registeredLaurent Pinchart
Replace the video_is_unregistered function by a video_is_registered function. The V4L2_FL_UNREGISTERED flag is replaced by a V4L2_FL_REGISTERED flag. This change makes the video_is_registered function return coherent results when called on an initialize but not yet registered video_device instance. The function can now be used instead of checking video_device::minor. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13549): v4l: Add video_device_node_name functionLaurent Pinchart
Many drivers access the device number (video_device::v4l2_devnode::num) in order to print the video device node name. Add and use a helper function to retrieve the video_device node name. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-09-19V4L/DVB (12725): v4l: warn when desired devnodenr is in use & add _no_warn ↵Hans Verkuil
function Warn when the desired device node number is already in use, except when the new video_register_device_no_warn function is called since in some use-cases that warning is not relevant. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-09-19V4L/DVB (12724): v4l2-dev: add simple wrapper functions around the devnode ↵Hans Verkuil
numbers There are some subtle differences in the way the devnode numbers are handled depending on whether the FIXED_MINOR_RANGES config option is set. Add some simple wrapper functions to handle that correctly. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-09-19V4L/DVB (12722): v4l2-dev: replace 'kernel number' by 'device node number'.Hans Verkuil
The term 'kernel number' is very vague, so replace it with the somewhat more descriptive term 'device node number'. In one place the local variable 'nr' was used to create the device node number of the new device name. This has been replaced with the vdev->num field to more clearly mark this as being the device node number and not the minor number. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-09-19V4L/DVB (12541): v4l: remove video_register_device_indexHans Verkuil
video_register_device_index is never actually called, instead the stream index number is always calculated automatically. This patch removes this function and simplifies the internal get_index function since that can now always just return the first free index. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-12headers: smp_lock.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!) * Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it * Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06V4L/DVB (11390): 2-dev.c: return 0 for NULL open and release callbacksHans Verkuil
Patch allows v4l2_open and v4l2_release functions return 0 if open and release driver callbacks set to NULL. This will be used in radio drivers. -- Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30V4L/DVB (11242): allow v4l2 drivers to provide a get_unmapped_area handlerDaniel Glöckner
Shared memory mappings on nommu machines require a get_unmapped_area file operation that suggests an address for the mapping. This patch adds a way for v4l2 drivers to provide this callback. Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30V4L/DVB (10988): v4l2-dev: use parent field if the v4l2_device has no parent ↵Hans Verkuil
set. Normally the parent device of v4l2_device is used as the video device node's parent. But if it was not set, then use the parent field in the video_device struct. This is needed in the cx88 driver, which has one core v4l2_device but creates multiple pci devices (one each for raw and mpeg video). So you cannot associate the core v4l2_device with a particular PCI device, but you can do that for each video_device. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30V4L/DVB (10947): Auto-load videodev module when device opened.Scott James Remnant
The videodev module is missing the char-major-81-* alias that would cause it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This patch adds the alias. Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30V4L/DVB (10791): videodev: not possible to register NULL video_deviceTrent Piepho
video_register_device_index() checks if it was passed a NULL video_device pointer (which isn't allowed) _after_ it has already dereferenced it with video_get_drvdata(vdev). The checks are clearly pointless and can be removed, as the function would have crashed before reaching them if vdev ever was NULL. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30V4L/DVB (10641): v4l2-dev: remove limit of 32 devices per driver in get_index()Hans Verkuil
get_index() had a limitation of 32 devices per driver. This was unnecessarily strict and has been replaced with the maximum number of devices. That should really satisfy anyone! Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-01-02V4L/DVB (10139): v4l: rename v4l_compat_ioctl32 to v4l2_compat_ioctl32Hans Verkuil
This rename prevents conflicts with the older compat_ioctl32 module. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-01-02V4L/DVB (10135): v4l2: introduce v4l2_file_operations.Hans Verkuil
Introduce a struct v4l2_file_operations for v4l2 drivers. Remove the unnecessary inode argument. Move compat32 handling (and llseek) into the v4l2-dev core: this is now handled in the v4l2 core and no longer in the drivers themselves. Note that this changeset reverts an earlier patch that changed the return type of__video_ioctl2 from int to long. This change will be reinstated later in a much improved version. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-30V4L/DVB (9974): v4l2-dev: allow drivers to pass v4l2_device as parentHans Verkuil
Drivers that use v4l2_device can set that as parent pointer in the v4l2_dev field instead of using the struct device parent field. This allows v4l2-dev.c to check whether this driver is v4l2_device based, and if so then it can offer additional services. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-30V4L/DVB (9973): v4l2-dev: use the release callback from device instead of cdevHans Verkuil
Instead of relying on the cdev release callback we should rely on the release callback from the device struct. This requires that we use get_device/put_device to do proper refcounting. In order to do this safely v4l2-dev.c now sets up its own file_operations that call out to the driver's ops. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-30V4L/DVB (9942): v4l2-dev: check for parent device in get_index.Hans Verkuil
get_index requires a valid parent device in order to discover which indices are in use. Some drivers (e.g. pvrusb2) do not set the parent device. In that case just return 0. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29V4L/DVB (9521): V4L: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), ↵Kay Sievers
dev_set_name() This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device". To set and read the device name dev_name(dev) and dev_set_name(dev) must be used. If your code uses static kobjects, which it shouldn't do, "const char *init_name" can be used to statically provide the name the registered device should have. At registration time, the init_name field is cleared, to enforce the use of dev_name(dev) to access the device name at a later time. We need to get rid of all occurrences of bus_id in the entire tree to be able to enable the new interface. Please apply this patch, and possibly convert any remaining remaining occurrences of bus_id. We want to submit a patch to -next, which will remove bus_id from "struct device", to find the remaining pieces to convert, and finally switch over to the new api, which will remove the 20 bytes array and does no longer have a size limitation. Thanks, Kay Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-12-29V4L/DVB (9491): rationalise addresses to one common oneAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12V4L/DVB (9133): v4l: disconnect kernel number from minorHans Verkuil
The v4l core creates four different video devices (video, vbi, radio, vtx) and each has its own range of minor numbers. However, modern devices keep increasing the number of devices that they need so a maximum of 64 video devices will not be enough in the future. In addition this scheme makes it very hard to add new device types. This patch disconnects the kernel number allocation (e.g. video0, video1, etc.) from the actual minor number (just pick the first free minor). This allows for much more flexibility in the future. However, it does require the use of udev. For those who cannot use udev a new CONFIG option was created that changes the allocation scheme back to the old behavior. Thanks to Greg KH for suggesting this approach during the 2008 LPC. In addition, several bugs were fixed in the ivtv and cx18 drivers: these drivers try to allocate specific kernel numbers but that scheme contained a bug which caused what should have been e.g. video17 to appear as e.g. video2. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-12V4L/DVB (8857): v4l2-dev: replace panic with BUGHans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>