summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c19
-rw-r--r--include/media/v4l2-subdev.h13
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
index e0ddb9a52bd1..7cca0de1b730 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
@@ -216,10 +216,18 @@ error_module:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_register_subdev);
+static void v4l2_subdev_release(struct v4l2_subdev *sd)
+{
+ struct module *owner = !sd->owner_v4l2_dev ? sd->owner : NULL;
+
+ if (sd->internal_ops && sd->internal_ops->release)
+ sd->internal_ops->release(sd);
+ module_put(owner);
+}
+
static void v4l2_device_release_subdev_node(struct video_device *vdev)
{
- struct v4l2_subdev *sd = video_get_drvdata(vdev);
- sd->devnode = NULL;
+ v4l2_subdev_release(video_get_drvdata(vdev));
kfree(vdev);
}
@@ -318,8 +326,9 @@ void v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(struct v4l2_subdev *sd)
media_device_unregister_entity(&sd->entity);
}
#endif
- video_unregister_device(sd->devnode);
- if (!sd->owner_v4l2_dev)
- module_put(sd->owner);
+ if (sd->devnode)
+ video_unregister_device(sd->devnode);
+ else
+ v4l2_subdev_release(sd);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_unregister_subdev);
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
index 349e1c18cf48..e807aa96ed3b 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
@@ -755,7 +755,17 @@ struct v4l2_subdev_ops {
*
* @open: called when the subdev device node is opened by an application.
*
- * @close: called when the subdev device node is closed.
+ * @close: called when the subdev device node is closed. Please note that
+ * it is possible for @close to be called after @unregistered!
+ *
+ * @release: called when the last user of the subdev device is gone. This
+ * happens after the @unregistered callback and when the last open
+ * filehandle to the v4l-subdevX device node was closed. If no device
+ * node was created for this sub-device, then the @release callback
+ * is called right after the @unregistered callback.
+ * The @release callback is typically used to free the memory containing
+ * the v4l2_subdev structure. It is almost certainly required for any
+ * sub-device that sets the V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE flag.
*
* .. note::
* Never call this from drivers, only the v4l2 framework can call
@@ -766,6 +776,7 @@ struct v4l2_subdev_internal_ops {
void (*unregistered)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd);
int (*open)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, struct v4l2_subdev_fh *fh);
int (*close)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, struct v4l2_subdev_fh *fh);
+ void (*release)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd);
};
#define V4L2_SUBDEV_NAME_SIZE 32