V4L/DVB (8787): v4l2-dev: cleanups and add video_drvdata helper function
Cleanup v4l2-dev.[ch], add/improve comments and add a new helper
function: video_drvdata() that can get the private driver data from
a file struct.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
index 1d4df57..fb92e3d 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
@@ -9,16 +9,14 @@
#ifndef _V4L2_DEV_H
#define _V4L2_DEV_H
-#define OBSOLETE_DEVDATA 1 /* to be removed soon */
-
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/compiler.h> /* need __user */
#include <linux/videodev2.h>
#define VIDEO_MAJOR 81
+
/* Minor device allocation */
#define MINOR_VFL_TYPE_GRABBER_MIN 0
#define MINOR_VFL_TYPE_GRABBER_MAX 63
@@ -71,20 +69,25 @@
const struct v4l2_ioctl_ops *ioctl_ops;
};
-/* Class-dev to video-device */
+/* dev to video-device */
#define to_video_device(cd) container_of(cd, struct video_device, dev)
-/* Version 2 functions */
+/* Register and unregister devices. Note that if video_register_device fails,
+ the release() callback of the video_device structure is *not* called, so
+ the caller is responsible for freeing any data. Usually that means that
+ you call video_device_release() on failure. */
int __must_check video_register_device(struct video_device *vfd, int type, int nr);
-int __must_check video_register_device_index(struct video_device *vfd, int type, int nr,
- int index);
-void video_unregister_device(struct video_device *);
+int __must_check video_register_device_index(struct video_device *vfd,
+ int type, int nr, int index);
+void video_unregister_device(struct video_device *vfd);
-/* helper functions to alloc / release struct video_device, the
- later can be used for video_device->release() */
+/* helper functions to alloc/release struct video_device, the
+ latter can also be used for video_device->release(). */
struct video_device * __must_check video_device_alloc(void);
+
/* this release function frees the vfd pointer */
void video_device_release(struct video_device *vfd);
+
/* this release function does nothing, use when the video_device is a
static global struct. Note that having a static video_device is
a dubious construction at best. */
@@ -101,9 +104,13 @@
dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, data);
}
-#ifdef OBSOLETE_DEVDATA /* to be removed soon */
-/* Obsolete stuff - Still needed for radio devices and obsolete drivers */
-extern struct video_device* video_devdata(struct file*);
-#endif
+struct video_device *video_devdata(struct file *file);
+
+/* Combine video_get_drvdata and video_devdata as this is
+ used very often. */
+static inline void *video_drvdata(struct file *file)
+{
+ return video_get_drvdata(video_devdata(file));
+}
#endif /* _V4L2_DEV_H */