linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/5 v2] [media] ov9740: Add suspend/resume

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1106012137320.29934@axis700.grange>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:51:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
To:	Andrew Chew <AChew@...dia.com>
cc:	"mchehab@...hat.com" <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	"olof@...om.net" <olof@...om.net>,
	"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/5 v2] [media] ov9740: Add suspend/resume

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Andrew Chew wrote:

> > > +	/* For suspend/resume. */
> > > +	struct v4l2_mbus_framefmt	current_mf;
> > > +	int				current_enable;
> > 
> > bool?
> 
> Are you sure you want this to be a bool?  This thing is trying to shadow 
> the "enable" parameter of the s_stream() callback, and that enable 
> parameter is int.

You use it as a bool.

> > > +static int ov9740_suspend(struct soc_camera_device *icd, 
> > pm_message_t state)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct v4l2_subdev *sd = soc_camera_to_subdev(icd);
> > > +	struct ov9740_priv *priv = to_ov9740(sd);
> > > +
> > > +	if (priv->current_enable) {
> > > +		int current_enable = priv->current_enable;
> > > +
> > > +		ov9740_s_stream(sd, 0);
> > > +		priv->current_enable = current_enable;
> > 
> > You don't need the local variable, just set
> > 
> > 	priv->current_enable = true;
> 
> I think I do need that local variable, the way the code is arranged now.  
> I'm trying to save the state of enablement inside of 
> priv->current_enable, at the time we are suspending, so it won't 
> necessarily be true.  And one of the side effects of calling 
> ov9740_s_stream(sd, 0) is that priv->current_enable will be set to 
> false, which is why I save off the value of priv->current_enable, and 
> then restore it after the call to ov9740_s_stream().

? Sorry, don't understand. You only _enter_ that "if" statement, if 
priv->current_enable is true. So, your local variable is _certainly_ true. 
And that's what you're then writing in priv->current_enable back again.

> > >  static struct soc_camera_ops ov9740_ops = {
> > > +	.suspend		= ov9740_suspend,
> > > +	.resume			= ov9740_resume,
> > 
> > No, we don't want to use these, whey should disappear some 
> > time... Please, 
> > use .s_power() from struct v4l2_subdev_core_ops, you can check 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infra
> > structure/33105 
> > for an example. If your host is not using these ops, it has 
> > to be fixed. 
> > So far in the mainline only one soc-camera host driver is using these 
> > callbacks: pxa_camera.c, which, looking at your email 
> > address, I doubt is 
> > the driver, that you're using;)
> 
> Okay, will do.  Thanks for pointing that out :)
> 
> Is the camera host driver expected to directly call the sensor driver's 
> s_power (via v4l2_subdev_call(sd, core, s_power, <some value>)?  Or does 
> the v4l2 framework do this for you?  I didn't see an example of this in 
> my last pull of linux-next.

yes, the host driver has to call s_power explicitly.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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