[PATCH v2 0/3] Fix uvcvideo pipelinehandler keeping /dev/video# open

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

The uvcvideo pipeline handler always keeps the uvcvideo /dev/video# device
for a pipeline open after enumerating the camera.

This is a problem for uvcvideo, as keeping the /dev/video# node open stops
the underlying USB device and the USB bus controller from being able to
enter runtime-suspend causing significant unnecessary power-usage.

Here is v2 of my series making the uvcvideo pipeline handler open
/dev/video# on acquire and close it on release to fix this.

Changes in v2:
- Drop the first 2 patches these have already been merged
- Add a note to both the doxygen documentation as well as to the commit
  messages that opening/closing /dev/video# from acquire()/release()
  as done by the uvcvideo pipeline handler is an exception and that this
  behavior should not be copied by other pipeline handlers
- Other doxygen doc fixes / improvements
- Only unlock media devices on acquireDevice() failure if useCount_ == 0
- Drop PipelineHandler::lock_, update "\context" in doxygen docs

I've pushed this to the software-isp gitlab repo for CI:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/camera/libcamera-softisp/-/commits/pipeline-acquireDevice-v2

and it has passed CI.

Regards,

Hans


Hans de Goede (3):
  pipeline_handler: Add acquireDevice() method to mirror existing
    releaseDevice()
  camera: Use invokeMethod() for pipe_->acquire() and pipe_->release()
  uvcvideo: Implement acquireDevice() + releaseDevice()

 include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h |  8 +--
 src/libcamera/camera.cpp                      |  6 +-
 src/libcamera/pipeline/uvcvideo/uvcvideo.cpp  | 45 ++++++++++++++
 src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp            | 60 ++++++++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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