Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] media: adv7180: Improve the control over decoder power

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Hi Hans,

Thanks for your review effort!

On 2025-09-03 10:46:11 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 28/08/2025 18:06, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This series started as an effort to fix issues with querystd. To do that
> > it turned out the whole drivers design around how it controls the power
> > to the video decoder block inside the chip had to be reworked. As a
> > bonus this works removes the now deprecated .s_power callback from
> > adv7180.
> > 
> > The adv7180 drivers comes from a time before media controller and all
> > operation callbacks are, more or less, designed around the concept that
> > a video device is the only user-space facing API. In that world a vdev
> > would attached the subdevice, call .s_power and then perform format
> > configuration using the other operation callbacks and then start
> > streaming with .s_stream. Needles to say this mode of operation don't
> > work well with media controller where the subdevices itself have a
> > user-space API exposed thru a subdev device.
> > 
> > The initial problem I tried to solve (querystd) was that it stopped
> > functioning as expected after the subdev had been used to stream once
> > (.s_power(1), .s_power(0)). As it turns out different variants of the
> > adv7180 device have different reset beaver for if its video decoder
> > block is left running or powered off. On my device it was left running
> > so querystd functioned the first time, but not after the video decoder
> > had been switched off once by .s_power(0).
> > 
> > I first tried to fix this by introducing proper PM handling in the
> > driver to be able to remove the .s_power callback. I quickly learnt the
> > power on/off logic happening in the driver had noting to do with
> > controlling power to the chip itself, but to control if the chips video
> > decoder block was turned off.
> > 
> > When this block is powered on the device process video data, if there is
> > a video source else it free runs. However when the block is turned off
> > the device can still be configured, in fact some configuration requires
> > it to be off.
> > 
> > For this reason I dropped the effort to add proper PM handling and
> > treated the decoder power as a stream on/off switch. I still think
> > proper PM handling would be beneficial for this driver but to not
> > explode this already large series I left that for another time. Solving
> > the issue around .s_power will make that work easier as well as other
> > task such as converting to the v4l2_subdev active state API.
> > 
> > Patch 1/11 just moves code around to make the consecutive changes easier
> > to read. Patch 2/11 fix a locking issues when suspending the device.
> > Patch 3/11 and 4/11 improves the locking design to prepare to improve
> > the driver.
> > 
> > Patch 5/11 make sure the device controls are always programmed after the
> > device have been reset, fixing a possible issue when the device where
> > resumed from system sleep.
> > 
> > Patches 6/11, 7/11 and 8/11 is the real change where the .s_power
> > callback is reworked to fit the design of .s_stream instead.
> > 
> > And finally patch 9/11, 10/11 and 11/11 removes programming of the
> > device from operation callbacks and solves the issue with querystd.
> > 
> > The work is tested on R-Car M2 together with a ADV7180 device.
> > 
> > See individual patches for changelog.
> 
> This series looks good to me, other than the one typo and the
> control handler kAPI issue, but that can be done in a follow-up
> series.
> 
> If you want I can take this series, let me know.

Thanks for pointing out the improvement in the kAPI, I agree with it.  
But as you point out I can do that in follow up work so I would be happy 
if you would take this series. Can you correct the typo while applying, 
or would you prefer I send an undated series?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 
> > 
> > Niklas Söderlund (11):
> >   media: adv7180: Move adv7180_set_power() and init_device()
> >   media: adv7180: Add missing lock in suspend callback
> >   media: adv7180: Move state mutex handling outside init_device()
> >   media: adv7180: Use v4l2-ctrls core to handle s_ctrl locking
> >   media: adv7180: Setup controls every time the device is reset
> >   media: adv7180: Power down decoder when configuring the device
> >   media: adv7180: Split device initialization and reset
> >   media: adv7180: Remove the s_power callback
> >   media: adv7180: Do not write format to device in set_fmt
> >   media: adv7180: Only validate format in s_std
> >   media: adv7180: Only validate format in querystd
> > 
> >  drivers/media/i2c/adv7180.c | 338 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 174 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)
> > 
> 

-- 
Kind Regards,
Niklas Söderlund




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