History log of /linux-master/include/uapi/linux/media.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 98b95642 23-Apr-2023 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

media: uapi: Use unsigned int values for assigning bits in u32 fields

Use unsigned int values annoted by "U" for u32 fields. While this is a
good practice, there doesn't appear to be a bug that this patch would fix.

The patch has been generated using the following command:

perl -i -pe 's/\([0-9]+\K <</U <</g; s/\|\s*0\K\)/U\)/' \
include/uapi/linux/media.h

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>


# 3d22dd43 28-Mar-2022 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

media: media.h: remove unneeded <stdint.h> inclusion

Commit b3b7a9f138b7 ("[media] media-device: Use u64 ints for pointers")
added this #include <stdint.h>, presumably in order to use uintptr_t.

Now that it is gone, we can compile this for userspace without <stdint.h>.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>


# 4e4dab4b 02-Mar-2022 Daniel Scally <djrscally@gmail.com>

media: media.h: Add new media link type

To describe in the kernel the connection between devices and their
supporting peripherals (for example, a camera sensor and the vcm
driving the focusing lens for it), add a new type of media link
to introduce the concept of these ancillary links.

Add some elements to the uAPI documentation to explain the new link
type, their purpose and some aspects of their current implementation.

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <djrscally@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jeanmichel.hautbois@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>


# f7c7d6cc 17-Dec-2020 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

media: uapi: Add an entity type for Image Signal Processors

Add and document a media entity type for Image Signal Processor devices.
Surprisingly we didn't have one, so add one now. More or less all ISP
drivers should use this type instead of what they currently are using (or
not using anything).

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>


# 5ca004d1 12-Jun-2019 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

media: media.h: Fix shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits problem

Fix MEDIA_ENT_ID_FLAG_NEXT to use "U" cast to avoid shifting signed
32-bit value by 31 bits problem. This isn't a problem for kernel builds
with gcc.

This could be problem since this header is part of public API which
could be included for builds using compilers that don't handle this
condition safely resulting in undefined behavior.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# e377d3e9 01-Apr-2019 Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>

media: media.h: Enable ALSA MEDIA_INTF_T* interface types

Move PCM_CAPTURE, PCM_PLAYBACK, and CONTROL ALSA MEDIA_INTF_T* interface
types back into __KERNEL__ scope to get ready for adding ALSA support for
these to the media controller.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 66431c0b 21-May-2018 Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

media: uapi/linux/media.h: add request API

Define the public request API.

This adds the new MEDIA_IOC_REQUEST_ALLOC ioctl to allocate a request
and two ioctls that operate on a request in order to queue the
contents of the request to the driver and to re-initialize the
request.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 87e1a881 25-Jul-2018 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

media: media.h: remove linux/version.h include

The media.h public header is one of only three public headers that include
linux/version.h. Drop it from media.h. It was only used for an obsolete
define.

It has to be added to media-device.c, since that source relied on media.h
to include it.

Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 45841a97 04-Jul-2018 Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

media: media.h: add encoder/decoder functions for codecs

Add MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_EN/DECODER to be used for the encoder
and decoder entities of codec hardware.

[mchehab+samsung@kernel.org: split description on two senteces by adding dots]
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# f2399f75 28-Jun-2018 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>

media: media.h: reorder video en/decoder functions

Keep the function defines in numerical order: 0x6000 comes after
0x2000, so move it back.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 7c8362c4 18-Jun-2018 Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

media: media.h: add MEDIA_ENT_F_DV_ENCODER

Add a new function for digital video encoders such as HDMI transmitters.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# d272bc92 28-Jun-2018 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>

media: rename MEDIA_ENT_F_DTV_DECODER to MEDIA_ENT_F_DV_DECODER

The use of 'DTV' is very confusing since it normally refers to Digital
TV e.g. DVB etc.

Instead use 'DV' (Digital Video), which nicely corresponds to the
DV Timings API used to configure such receivers and transmitters.

We keep an alias to avoid breaking userspace applications.

Since this alias is only available if __KERNEL__ is *not* defined
(i.e. it is only available for userspace, not kernelspace), any
drivers that use it also have to be converted to the new define.
These drivers are adv7604, adv7842 and tda1997x.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 588f4ee7 28-Feb-2018 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>

media: add flags field to struct media_v2_entity

The v2 entity structure never exposed the entity flags, which made it
impossible to detect connector or default entities.

It is really trivial to just expose this information, so implement this.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 30b914c8 27-Feb-2018 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>

media: add 'index' to struct media_v2_pad

The v2 pad structure never exposed the pad index, which made it impossible
to call the MEDIA_IOC_SETUP_LINK ioctl, which needs that information.

It is really trivial to just expose this information, so implement this.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# e1a98c16 15-Jun-2018 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>

media: media.h: remove __NEED_MEDIA_LEGACY_API

The __NEED_MEDIA_LEGACY_API define is 1) ugly and 2) dangerous
since it is all too easy for drivers to define it to get hold of
legacy defines. Instead just define what we need in media-device.c
which is the only place where we need the legacy define
(MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_UNKNOWN).

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# ed3056f0 05-Feb-2018 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

media: media.h: reorganize header to make it easier to understand

The media.h public header is very messy. It mixes legacy and 'new' defines
and it is not easy to figure out what should and what shouldn't be used. It
also contains confusing comment that are either out of date or completely
uninteresting for anyone that needs to use this header.

The patch groups all entity functions together, including the 'old' defines
based on the old range base. The reader just wants to know about the available
functions and doesn't care about what range is used.

All legacy defines are moved to the end of the header, so it is easier to
locate them and just ignore them.

The legacy structs in the struct media_entity_desc are put under
also a much more effective signal to the reader that they shouldn't be used
compared to the old method of relying on '#if 1' followed by a comment.

The unused MEDIA_INTF_T_ALSA_* defines are also moved to the end of the header
in the legacy area. They are also dropped from intf_type() in media-entity.c.

All defines are also aligned at the same tab making the header easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
[mchehab@s-opensource.com: removed lots of spaces before tabs; typo changes ->change ]
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# 81e0989e 05-Feb-2018 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

media: media.h: fix confusing typo in comment

Subdevs are initialized with MEDIA_ENT_F_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN, not
MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# 5271a98c 14-Feb-2018 Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>

media: add digital video decoder entity functions

Add a new media entity function definition for digital TV decoders:
MEDIA_ENT_F_DTV_DECODER

Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# e2be04c7 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 6c2c188f 28-Jul-2017 Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

media: drop use of MEDIA_API_VERSION

Set media_version to LINUX_VERSION_CODE, just as we did for
driver_version.

Nobody ever rememebers to update the version number, but
LINUX_VERSION_CODE will always be updated.

Move the MEDIA_API_VERSION define to the ifndef __KERNEL__ section of the
media.h header. That way kernelspace can't accidentally start to use
it again.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# b45cd756 07-Jun-2017 Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>

[media] add mux and video interface bridge entity functions

Add two new media entity function definitions for video multiplexers
and video interface bridges.

- renamed MEDIA_ENT_F_MUX to MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX

Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# b2fe22d0 18-Jul-2016 Nick Dyer <nick@shmanahar.org>

[media] v4l2-core: Add support for touch devices

Some touch controllers send out touch data in a similar way to a
greyscale frame grabber.

Add new device type VFL_TYPE_TOUCH:
- This uses a new device prefix v4l-touch for these devices, to stop
generic capture software from treating them as webcams. Otherwise,
touch is treated similarly to video capture.
- Add V4L2_INPUT_TYPE_TOUCH
- Add MEDIA_INTF_T_V4L_TOUCH
- Add V4L2_CAP_TOUCH to indicate device is a touch device

Add formats:
- V4L2_TCH_FMT_DELTA_TD16 for signed 16-bit touch deltas
- V4L2_TCH_FMT_DELTA_TD08 for signed 16-bit touch deltas
- V4L2_TCH_FMT_TU16 for unsigned 16-bit touch data
- V4L2_TCH_FMT_TU08 for unsigned 8-bit touch data

This support will be used by:
- Atmel maXTouch (atmel_mxt_ts)
- Synaptics RMI4.
- sur40

Signed-off-by: Nick Dyer <nick@shmanahar.org>
Tested-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# eaa0b96b 01-Mar-2016 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>

[media] media: Add video statistics computation functions

The video statistics function describes entities such as video histogram
engines or 3A statistics engines.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# 1179aab1 15-Feb-2016 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>

[media] media: Add video processing entity functions

Add composer, pixel formatter, pixel encoding converter and scaler
functions.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


# b2cd2744 05-Mar-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media-device: map new functions into old types for legacy API

The legacy media controller userspace API exposes entity types that
carry both type and function information. The new API replaces the type
with a function. It preserves backward compatibility by defining legacy
functions for the existing types and using them in drivers.

This works fine, as long as newer entity functions won't be added.

Unfortunately, some tools, like media-ctl with --print-dot argument
rely on the now legacy MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV and MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE
numeric ranges to identify what entities will be shown.

Also, if the entity doesn't match those ranges, it will ignore the
major/minor information on devnodes, and won't be getting the devnode
name via udev or sysfs.

As we're now adding devices outside the old range, the legacy ioctl
needs to map the new entity functions into a type at the old range,
or otherwise we'll have a regression.

Detected on all released media-ctl versions (e. g. versions <= 1.10).

Fix this by deriving the type from the function to emulate the legacy
API if the function isn't in the legacy functions range.

Reported-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 64bd1971 03-Mar-2016 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

[media] media.h: always start with 1 for the audio entities

Start the audio defines with BASE + 0x03001 instead of 0x03000. This is consistent
with the other defines, and I think it is good practice not to start with 0, just in
case we want to do something like (id & 0xfff) in the future and treat the value 0
as a special case.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# fbe093ac 03-Mar-2016 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

[media] media: Sanitise the reserved fields of the G_TOPOLOGY IOCTL arguments

The argument structs are used in arrays for G_TOPOLOGY IOCTL. The
arguments themselves do not need to be aligned to a power of two, but
aligning them up to the largest basic type alignment (u64) on common ABIs
is a good thing to do.

The patch changes the size of the reserved fields to 5 or 6 u32's and
aligns the size of the struct to 8 bytes so we do no longer depend on the
compiler to perform the alignment.

While at it, add __attribute__ ((packed)) to these structs as well.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 93125094 03-Mar-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: postpone connectors entities

The representation of external connections got some heated
discussions recently. As we're too close to the merge window,
let's not set those entities into a stone.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 0629e991 22-Feb-2016 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

[media] media: Move media_get_uptr() macro out of the media.h user space header

The media_get_uptr() macro is mostly useful only for the IOCTL handling
code in media-device.c so move it there.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 87294e9d 29-Feb-2016 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

[media] media.h: use hex values for IF and AUDIO entities too

Make the base offset hexadecimal to simplify debugging since the base
addresses are hex too.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 58402b6e9 29-Feb-2016 Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

[media] media.h: use hex values for range offsets, move connectors base up.

Make the base offset hexadecimal to simplify debugging since the base
addresses are hex too.

The offsets for connectors is also changed to start after the 'reserved'
range 0x10000-0x2ffff.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 7a2eba12 11-Feb-2016 Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>

[media] media: Add ALSA Media Controller function entities

Add ALSA Media Controller capture, playback, and mixer
function entity defines.

[mchehab@osg.samsung.com: fix a trivial merge conflict and start
MEDIA_ENT_AUDIO_F from 3000]

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 5af557a6 11-Feb-2016 Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Declare interface types for ALSA

Declare the interface types to be used on alsa for
the new G_TOPOLOGY ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 360104e3 12-Feb-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: get rid of MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_TEST

Defining it as a connector was a bad idea. Remove it while it is
not too late.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 9727a954 12-Feb-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: get rid of MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_TEST

Defining it as a connector was a bad idea. Remove it while it is
not too late.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 1f452240 10-Feb-2016 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

[media] [for,v4.5] media.h: increase the spacing between function ranges

Each function range is quite narrow and especially for connectors this
will pose a problem. Increase the function ranges while we still can and
move the connector range to the end so that range is practically limitless.

[mchehab@osg.samsung.com: Rebased to apply at Linus tree]
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 06131932 28-Jan-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: add support for IF-PLL video/sound decoder

Very old hardware may have an analog stage tuner. Those hardware
consists of a PLL that converts a RF signal into IF signals.

Depending on the hardware, those video IF signal can be
decoded directly by the bridge chipset. Most Conexant
chips (bt8x8, cx2388x, etc) have internally the decoders
for that. Yet, even on such hardware, the tuner may have
internally its own TV multi-standard decoder like tda9887.

The same happens with the audio IF signal, where some bridges
are capable of receiving it, while others require an external
IF-PLL sound decoder, like msp3400.

Those external IF-PLL audio and video decoders have their own
I2C address, and use different drivers to handle them. So, they're
mapped as different subdevices on Linux.

Thankfully, all modern hardware comes with an IC chip that
has both the RF and the IF stages on it, being capable of
decoding audio and video IF signals internally.

Yet, as we need to support drivers that can work with either
analog or silicon tuners, we need to add two entity types
for those old hardware.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 333a6515 25-Jan-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

Revert "[media] Postpone the addition of MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY"

Enable MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY ioctl for Kernel 4.6.

This reverts commit be0270ec89e6b9b49de7e533dd1f3a89ad34d205.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# be0270ec 27-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] Postpone the addition of MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY

There are a few discussions left with regards to this ioctl:

1) the name of the new structs will contain _v2_ on it?
2) what's the best alternative to avoid compat32 issues?

Due to that, let's postpone the addition of this new ioctl to
the next Kernel version, to give people more time to discuss it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 7c9d6731 17-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Use u32 for the number of graph objects

While we need to keep a u64 alignment to avoid compat32 issues,
having the number of entities/pads/links/interfaces represented
by an u64 is incoherent with the ID number, with is an u32.

In order to make it coherent, change those quantities to u32.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# b3109d66 11-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: let be clear that tuners need to use connectors

The V4L2 core won't be adding connectors to the tuners and other
entities that need them. Let it be clear.

Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# b3b7a9f1 11-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media-device: Use u64 ints for pointers

By using u64 integers and pointers, we can get rid of compat32
logic. So, let's do it!

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# d1b9da2d 10-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media-device.h: Let clearer that entity function must be initialized

Improve the documentation to let it clear that the entity function
must be initialized.

Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 4ca72efa 10-Dec-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Rename entities types to functions

Rename the userspace types from MEDIA_ENT_T_ to MEDIA_ENT_F_
and add the backward compatibility bits.

The changes at the .c files was generated by the following
coccinelle script:

@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN
+MEDIA_ENT_F_UNKNOWN
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_BASE
+MEDIA_ENT_F_DVB_BASE
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_BASE
+MEDIA_ENT_F_V4L2_BASE
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_BASE
+MEDIA_ENT_F_V4L2_SUBDEV_BASE
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_CONNECTOR_BASE
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CONNECTOR_BASE
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VIDEO
+MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_V4L
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VBI
+MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_VBI
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SWRADIO
+MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_SWRADIO
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN
+MEDIA_ENT_F_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_CONN_RF
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_RF
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_CONN_SVIDEO
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_SVIDEO
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_CONN_COMPOSITE
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_COMPOSITE
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_CONN_TEST
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_TEST
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_SENSOR
+MEDIA_ENT_F_CAM_SENSOR
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_FLASH
+MEDIA_ENT_F_FLASH
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_LENS
+MEDIA_ENT_F_LENS
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER
+MEDIA_ENT_F_ATV_DECODER
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_TUNER
+MEDIA_ENT_F_TUNER
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMOD
+MEDIA_ENT_F_DTV_DEMOD
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMUX
+MEDIA_ENT_F_TS_DEMUX
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_TSOUT
+MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_DTV
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_CA
+MEDIA_ENT_F_DTV_CA
@@
@@
-MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_NET_DECAP
+MEDIA_ENT_F_DTV_NET_DECAP

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# d87cdb88 06-Sep-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media-device: export the entity function via new ioctl

Now that entities have a main function, expose it via
MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY ioctl.

Please notice that some entities may have secundary functions.
Such use case will be addressed later, when we add support for the
Media Controller properties.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 49a11518 31-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: create connector entities for hybrid TV devices

Add entities to represent the connectors that exists inside a
hybrid TV device.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# c398bb64 23-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Add MEDIA_IOC_G_TOPOLOGY ioctl

Add a new ioctl that will report the entire topology on
one go.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 4376679a 29-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media.h: don't use legacy entity macros at Kernel

Put the legacy MEDIA_ENT_* macros under a #ifndef __KERNEL__,
in order to be sure that none of those old symbols are used
inside the Kernel.

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 687b4209 07-May-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media controller: get rid of entity subtype on Kernel

Don't use anymore the type/subtype entity data/macros
inside the Kernel.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# b50bde4e 07-May-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] v4l2-subdev: use MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN for new subdevs

Instead of abusing MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV, initialize
new subdev entities as MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# fa17b46a 20-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media: add macros to check if subdev or V4L2 DMA

As we'll be removing entity subtypes from the Kernel, we need
to provide a way for drivers and core to check if a given
entity is represented by a V4L2 subdev or if it is an V4L2
I/O entity (typically with DMA).

Drivers that create entities that don't belong to any defined subdev
category should use MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 32fdc0e1 21-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Fix entity namespace

Now that interfaces got created, we need to fix the entity
namespace.

So, let's create a consistent new namespace and add backward
compatibility macros to keep the old namespace preserved.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# a1d2510e 20-Aug-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] uapi/media.h: Declare interface types for V4L2 and DVB

Declare the interface types that will be used by the new
G_TOPOLOGY ioctl that will be defined later on.

For now, we need those types, as they'll be used on the
internal structs associated with the new media_interface
graph object defined on the next patch.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 7e182f78 24-Feb-2015 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

[media] media.h: mark alsa struct in media_entity_desc as TODO

The alsa struct in struct media_entity_desc is now marked as deprecated.
However, the alsa struct should remain as it is since it cannot be replaced
by a simple major/minor device node description. The alsa struct was designed
to be used as an alsa card description so V4L2 drivers could use this to expose
the alsa card that they create to carry the captured audio. Such a card is not
just a PCM device, but also needs to contain the alsa subdevice information,
and it may map to multiple devices, e.g. a PCM and a mixer device, such as the
au0828 usb stick creates.

This is exactly as intended and this cannot and should not be replaced by a
simple major/minor.

However, whether this information is in the right form for an ALSA device such
that it can handle udev renaming rules as well is another matter. So mark this
alsa struct as TODO and document the problems involved.

Updated the documentation as well to reflect this and to add the 'major'
and 'minor' field documentation.

Updated the documentation to clearly state that struct dev is to be used for
(sub-)devices that create a single device node. Other devices need their own
structure here.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 91b0f3a0 26-Jan-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media: add a subdev type for tuner

Add MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_TUNER to represent the V4L2
(and dvb) tuner subdevices.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# 1d20f9f6 03-Jan-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media: add new types for DVB devnodes

Most of the DVB subdevs have already their own devnode.

Add support for them at the media controller API.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# e31a0ba7 01-Jan-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

[media] media: Fix DVB devnode representation at media controller

The previous provision for DVB media controller support were to
define an ID (likely meaning the adapter number) for the DVB
devnodes.

This is just plain wrong. Just like V4L, DVB devices (and any other
device node)) are uniquely identified via a (major, minor) tuple.

This is enough to uniquely identify a devnode, no matter what
API it implements.

So, before we go too far, let's mark the old v4l, fb, dvb and alsa
"devnode" info as deprecated, and just call it as "dev".

We can latter add fields specific to each API if needed.

As we don't want to break compilation on already existing apps,
let's just keep the old definitions as-is, adding a note that
those are deprecated at media-entity.h.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>


# d0700c51 13-Oct-2013 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

[media] media: Add pad flag MEDIA_PAD_FL_MUST_CONNECT

Pads that set this flag must be connected by an active link for the entity
to stream.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>


# e64171b9 07-Feb-2013 Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com>

[media] media: add support for decoder as one of media entity types

A lot of SOCs including Texas Instruments Davinci family mainly use
video decoders as input devices. This patch adds a flag
'MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER' media entity type for decoder's.
Along side updates the documentation for this media entity type.

Signed-off-by: Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.lad@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>


# 607ca46e 13-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>