[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v3 1/6] libcamera: v4l2_device: Add setFd()
Kieran Bingham
kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Tue Aug 13 11:40:15 CEST 2019
Provide a means for V4L2 device instances to set the fd_ explicitly.
This allows for V4L2Devices to operate when they must use an external
open() call.
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo at jmondi.org>
---
src/libcamera/include/v4l2_device.h | 1 +
src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/libcamera/include/v4l2_device.h b/src/libcamera/include/v4l2_device.h
index e7e9829cb05f..75a52c33d821 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/include/v4l2_device.h
+++ b/src/libcamera/include/v4l2_device.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ protected:
~V4L2Device();
int open(unsigned int flags);
+ int setFd(int fd);
int ioctl(unsigned long request, void *argp);
diff --git a/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp b/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
index 9a00566a532b..f89546610ac6 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
@@ -88,6 +88,32 @@ int V4L2Device::open(unsigned int flags)
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * \brief Set the file descriptor of a V4L2 device
+ * \param[in] fd The file descriptor handle
+ *
+ * This method allows a device to provide an already opened file descriptor
+ * referring to the V4L2 device node, instead of opening it with open(). This
+ * can be used for V4L2 M2M devices where a single video device node is used for
+ * both the output and capture devices, or when receiving an open file
+ * descriptor in a context that doesn't have permission to open the device node
+ * itself.
+ *
+ * This method and the open() method are mutually exclusive, only one of the two
+ * shall be used for a V4L2Device instance.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success or a negative error code otherwise
+ */
+int V4L2Device::setFd(int fd)
+{
+ if (isOpen())
+ return -EBUSY;
+
+ fd_ = fd;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* \brief Close the device node
*
--
2.20.1
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