linux-kernel - [PATCH] Support of /dev/video read with USB camera devices

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Date:   Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:35:24 +0100
From:   Hugues Fruchet <hugues.fruchet@...com>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Hugues Fruchet" <hugues.fruchet@...com>
Subject: [PATCH] Support of /dev/video read with USB camera devices

Currently, read() call from /dev/video entry of an USB camera is
returning invalid argument error.
This is quite common for userspace application to read compressed data such as
JPEG from /dev/video then redirect those data to a multimedia player or any
other compressed format consumer, see [1].

There was a tentative of implementation in the past [2] but it was prior to
switch on vb2 helpers usage inside uvc.
Now that vb2 is in place, we can implement read support using vb2_read()
helper.

Tested with Logitech HD Webcam C525 using v4l2-ctl to configure camera
then GStreamer player to play stream:
$> v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-fmt-video=width=640,height=480,pixelformat=MJPG
$> gst-play-1.0 /dev/video0

[1]
  http://credentiality2.blogspot.com/2010/04/v4l2-example.html?_sm_au_=ikcQHNZZFn2Rqft5
  https://stackoverrun.com/fr/q/4215615
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36297390/read-function-for-webcam-device-in-v4l2-fails-with-invalid-argument
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058571/reading-camera-input-from-dev-video0-in-python-or-c

[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de/msg01258.html

Hugues Fruchet (1):
  media: uvcvideo: Read support

 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c  | 11 ++++++++---
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h  |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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