Re: [PATCH] media: vimc: fla: Add virtual flash subdevice

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>]

On 9/10/19 1:00 AM, Lucas Magalhães wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> Thanks for the review. I fixed most of the issues you found. Just have
> the question below.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:04 AM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> +
>>> +int vimc_fla_add(struct vimc_device *vimc, struct vimc_ent_config *vcfg)
>>> +{
>>> +     struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev = &vimc->v4l2_dev;
>>> +     struct vimc_fla_device *vfla;
>>> +     int ret;
>>> +
>>> +     /* Allocate the vfla struct */
>>> +     vfla = kzalloc(sizeof(*vfla), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +     if (!vfla)
>>> +             return -ENOMEM;
>>> +
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_handler_init(&vfla->hdl, 4);
>>> +
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                            V4L2_CID_FLASH_LED_MODE,
>>> +                            V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_TORCH, ~0x7,
>>> +                            V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_NONE);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                            V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE, 0x1, ~0x3,
>>> +                            V4L2_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE_SOFTWARE);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STOP, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_TIMEOUT, 1, 10, 1, 10);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_TORCH_INTENSITY, 0, 255, 1, 255);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_INTENSITY, 0, 255, 1, 255);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_INDICATOR_INTENSITY, 0, 255, 1, 255);
>>> +     v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&vfla->hdl, &vimc_fla_ctrl_ops,
>>> +                       V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STATUS, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>>
>> It would be nice if this would actually reflect the actual strobe status.
>>
> Regarding the strobe status I was reading the code and find out that
> V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STATUS is a V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_READ_ONLY
> but it's not a V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_VOLATILE. I found this intriguing. How an
> I suppose to get it if its not volatile? As I understood it changes over time
> if the strobe starts and the timeout expire, isn't it? Shouldn't it be volatile
> if so?

A non-volatile read-only control is set deterministically by the the driver.
So the driver calls v4l2_ctrl_s_ctrl() to change the controls value.

A volatile read-only control is one where the value is read from a hardware
register that is continuously changing. E.g. if autogain is on, then the gain
register in a device contains the currently calculated gain, but that might be
changed the next time the register is read.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> I've already made a simple implementation were V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STATUS
> returns after calling V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE and becomes false after the timeout
> time passes.
> 
> Thanks!
>