Add comments at vimc_streamer_s_stream and vimc_streamer_thread, making
the vimc-stream totally documented.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealm...@collabora.com>
---
Commit extracted from [PATCH 0/4] media: vimc: Minor code cleanup
and documentation
Changes in v2: fix typos
drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
index 236ade38f1da..76435e87d609 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ static int vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(struct vimc_stream
*stream,
return -EINVAL;
}
+/*
+ * vimc_streamer_thread - process frames through the pipeline
+ *
+ * @data: vimc_stream struct of the current streaming
+ *
+ * From the source to the sink, gets a frame from each subdevice and send to
+ * the next one of the pipeline in a fixed framerate.
+ */
static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
{
struct vimc_stream *stream = data;
@@ -149,6 +157,20 @@ static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * vimc_streamer_s_stream - start/stop the streaming on the media pipeline
+ *
+ * @stream: the pointer to the stream structure of the current stream
+ * @ved: pointer to the vimc entity of the entity of the stream
+ * @enable: flag to determine if stream should start/stop
+ *
+ * When starting, check if there is no stream->kthread allocated. This should
+ * indicate that a streaming is already running. Then, it initializes
+ * the pipeline, creates and runs a kthread to consume buffers through the
+ * pipeline.
+ * When stopping, analogously check if there is a stream running, stops
+ * the thread and terminates the pipeline.
+ */
int vimc_streamer_s_stream(struct vimc_stream *stream,
struct vimc_ent_device *ved,
int enable)
--
2.22.0
