linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] media: uvcvideo: Do not create MC entities for virtual entities

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Message-ID: <CANiDSCtq0cr1LgFCgvdBtWcE3z1MWZEjc0e1wTH_BYPETC+s4Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 08:28:21 +0200
From: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, 
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, 
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] media: uvcvideo: Do not create MC entities for
 virtual entities

Hi Laurent

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 at 13:20, Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Laurent and Hans
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 at 20:06, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ricardo,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch.
> >
> > I would use "software entities" and not "virtual entities" in the
> > subject line and everywhere else, as those entities are not virtual.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 05:53:05PM +0000, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > > Neither the GPIO nor the SWENTITY entities form part of the device
> > > pipeline. We just create them to hold emulated uvc controls.
> > >
> > > When the device initializes, a warning is thrown by the v4l2 core:
> > > uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: Entity type for entity SWENTITY was not initialized!
> > >
> > > There are no entity function that matches what we are doing here, and
> > > it does not make to much sense to create a function for entities that
> > > do not really exist.
> >
> > I don't agree with this. The purpose of reporting entities to userspace
> > through the MC API is to let application enumerate what entities a
> > device contains. Being able to enumerate software entities seems as
> > useful as being able to enumerate hardware entities.
>
> What function shall we use in this case? Nothing here seems to match a
> software entity
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.html
>
> Any suggestion for name?
> Shall we just live with the warning in dmesg?

 I just realised that if/when we move to the control framework, the
software entity will be gone.... So to avoid introducing a uAPI change
that will be reverted later I think that we should keep this patch.

Regards
>
> >
> > > Do not create MC entities for them and pretend nothing happened here.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c
> > > index d1a652ef35ec34801bd39a5124b834edf838a79e..2dbeb4ab0c4c8cc763ff2dcd2d836a50f3c6a040 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_entity.c
> > > @@ -72,6 +72,16 @@ static int uvc_mc_init_entity(struct uvc_video_chain *chain,
> > >  {
> > >       int ret;
> > >
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Do not initialize virtual entities, they do not really exist
> > > +      * and are not connected to any other entities.
> > > +      */
> > > +     switch (UVC_ENTITY_TYPE(entity)) {
> > > +     case UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT:
> > > +     case UVC_SWENTITY_UNIT:
> > > +             return 0;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > >       if (UVC_ENTITY_TYPE(entity) != UVC_TT_STREAMING) {
> > >               u32 function;
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Laurent Pinchart
>
>
>
> --
> Ricardo Ribalda



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Ricardo Ribalda