Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit controls from a pipeline

From	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit controls from a pipeline
Date	2017-03-12 19:20 +0100
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On Sun 2017-03-12 07:37:45, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:31:18PM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 03/11/2017 10:59 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > >On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:54:55AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On 03/11/2017 10:45 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > >>>I really don't think expecting the user to understand and configure
> > >>>the pipeline is a sane way forward.  Think about it - should the
> > >>>user need to know that, because they have a bayer-only CSI data
> > >>>source, that there is only one path possible, and if they try to
> > >>>configure a different path, then things will just error out?
> > >>>
> > >>>For the case of imx219 connected to iMX6, it really is as simple as
> > >>>"there is only one possible path" and all the complexity of the media
> > >>>interfaces/subdevs is completely unnecessary.  Every other block in
> > >>>the graph is just noise.
> > >>>
> > >>>The fact is that these dot graphs show a complex picture, but reality
> > >>>is somewhat different - there's only relatively few paths available
> > >>>depending on the connected source and the rest of the paths are
> > >>>completely useless.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>I totally disagree there. Raw bayer requires passthrough yes, but for
> > >>all other media bus formats on a mipi csi-2 bus, and all other media
> > >>bus formats on 8-bit parallel buses, the conersion pipelines can be
> > >>used for scaling, CSC, rotation, and motion-compensated de-interlacing.
> > >
> > >... which only makes sense _if_ your source can produce those formats.
> > >We don't actually disagree on that.
> > 
> > ...and there are lots of those sources! You should try getting out of
> > your imx219 shell some time, and have a look around! :)
> 
> If you think that, you are insulting me.  I've been thinking about this
> from the "big picture" point of view.  If you think I'm only thinking
> about this from only the bayer point of view, you're wrong.

Can you stop that insults nonsense?

> Given what Mauro has said, I'm convinced that the media controller stuff
> is a complete failure for usability, and adding further drivers using it
> is a mistake.

Hmm. But you did not present any alternative. Seems some hardware is
simply complex. So either we don't add complex drivers (_that_ would
be a mistake), or some userspace solution will need to be
done. Shell-script running media-ctl does not seem that hard.

> So, tell me how the user can possibly use iMX6 video capture without
> resorting to opening up a terminal and using media-ctl to manually
> configure the pipeline.  How is the user going to control the source
> device without using media-ctl to find the subdev node, and then using
> v4l2-ctl on it.  How is the user supposed to know which /dev/video*
> node they should be opening with their capture application?

Complex hardware sometimes requires userspace configuration. Running a
shell script on startup does not seem that hard.

And maybe we could do some kind of default setup in kernel, but that
does not really solve the problem.

									Pavel
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Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-02 17:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 02:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 03:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-03 20:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 23:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-04 00:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 01:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-04 14:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-10 14:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-10 14:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-10 14:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-10 15:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-10 15:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-10 17:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-10 23:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-11 12:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-11 23:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-12 00:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 01:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-12 22:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-12 23:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-13 13:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-10 16:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-10 17:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-10 18:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-10 21:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-10 23:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-10 16:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-11 12:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-11 14:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> - 2017-03-11 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-11 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 19:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-11 19:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 20:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-11 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-11 21:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 04:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-12 08:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-12 23:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-13 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-13 12:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-13 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-03-13 12:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-13 13:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-12 19:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-11 21:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 21:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit  controls from a pipeline Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-11 22:40 +0100

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