Hi Sakari,
Thank you for the patch.
On Wednesday 29 October 2014 01:10:04 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> From: Sakari Ailus
>
> The Media controller doesn't tell much to the user in cases such as pipeline
> startup failure. The link validation is the most common media graph (or in
> V4L2's case, format) related reason for the failure. In more complex
> pipelines the reason may not always be obvious to the user, so point them
> to look at the right direction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus
> ---
> since v1:
> - Fix language in the second message.
>
> drivers/media/media-entity.c | 13 -
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-entity.c b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> index 37c334e..a4030c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> @@ -279,8 +279,14 @@ __must_check int media_entity_pipeline_start(struct
> media_entity *entity, continue;
>
> ret = entity->ops->link_validate(link);
> - if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOIOCTLCMD)
> + if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOIOCTLCMD) {
> + dev_dbg(entity->parent->dev,
> + "link validation failed for \"%s\":%u
> -> \"%s\":%u, error
%d\n",
> + entity->name, link->source->index,
> + link->sink->entity->name,
> + link->sink->index, ret);
> goto error;
> + }
> }
>
> /* Either no links or validated links are fine. */
> @@ -288,6 +294,11 @@ __must_check int media_entity_pipeline_start(struct
> media_entity *entity,
>
> if (!bitmap_full(active, entity->num_pads)) {
> ret = -EPIPE;
> + dev_dbg(entity->parent->dev,
> + "\"%s\":%u must be connected by an enabled
> link, error %d\n",
> + entity->name,
> + find_first_zero_bit(active, entity->num_pads),
> + ret);
Given that ret is always set to -EPIPE, I wouldn't print ", error %d".
Apart from that,
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart
> goto error;
> }
> }
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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