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    "msgid": "<20250717124853.2317191-4-dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>",
    "date": "2025-07-17T12:48:52",
    "name": "[v2,3/4] libcamera: media_device: Allow for a regex to match entity name",
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            "date": "2025-07-17T12:48:49",
            "name": "Use regular expressions for entity name matching",
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        "From": "Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Cc": "Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v2 3/4] libcamera: media_device: Allow for a regex to match\n\tentity name",
        "Date": "Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:48:52 +0100",
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    "content": "Some kernel drivers give their entities names that will differ from\nimplementation to implementation; for example the drivers for the\nCamera Receiver Unit and CSI-2 receiver in the RZ/V2H SoC give their\nentities names that include their memory address, in the format\n\"csi-16000400.csi2\". Passing that entity name to\nMediaDevice::getEntityByName() is too inflexible given it would only\nthen work if that specific CSI-2 receiver were the one being used.\n\nAdd an overload for MediaDevice::getEntityByName() that accepts a\nstd::basic_regex instead of a string, and use std::regex_search()\ninstead of a direct string comparison to find a matching entity. This\nallows us to search for entites using regex patterns like\n\"csi-[0-9a-f]{8}.csi2\".\n\nSigned-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>\n---\nChanges in v2:\n\n\t- Add an overload for ::getEntityByName() instead of\n\treplacing the existing functionality. The new overload\n\ttakes a regex, but will return a nullptr in the event\n\tthat the given regex matches multiple entities.\n\n include/libcamera/internal/media_device.h |  2 ++\n src/libcamera/media_device.cpp            | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++\n 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)",
    "diff": "diff --git a/include/libcamera/internal/media_device.h b/include/libcamera/internal/media_device.h\nindex b3a48b98..3f28793f 100644\n--- a/include/libcamera/internal/media_device.h\n+++ b/include/libcamera/internal/media_device.h\n@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@\n #include <linux/media.h>\n \n #include <libcamera/base/log.h>\n+#include <libcamera/base/regex.h>\n #include <libcamera/base/signal.h>\n #include <libcamera/base/unique_fd.h>\n \n@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ public:\n \n \tconst std::vector<MediaEntity *> &entities() const { return entities_; }\n \tMediaEntity *getEntityByName(const std::string &name) const;\n+\tMediaEntity *getEntityByName(const std::regex &name) const;\n \n \tMediaLink *link(const std::string &sourceName, unsigned int sourceIdx,\n \t\t\tconst std::string &sinkName, unsigned int sinkIdx);\ndiff --git a/src/libcamera/media_device.cpp b/src/libcamera/media_device.cpp\nindex 353f34a8..a0c0df86 100644\n--- a/src/libcamera/media_device.cpp\n+++ b/src/libcamera/media_device.cpp\n@@ -341,6 +341,31 @@ MediaEntity *MediaDevice::getEntityByName(const std::string &name) const\n \treturn nullptr;\n }\n \n+/**\n+ * \\brief Return the MediaEntity with name matching the regex \\a name\n+ * \\param[in] name A regex to match the entity name\n+ * \\return The entity with name matching the regex \\a name, or nullptr if no\n+ * such entity is found\n+ */\n+MediaEntity *MediaDevice::getEntityByName(const std::regex &name) const\n+{\n+\tMediaEntity *entity = nullptr;\n+\n+\tfor (MediaEntity *e : entities_) {\n+\t\tif (std::regex_search(e->name(), name)) {\n+\t\t\tif (entity) {\n+\t\t\t\tLOG(MediaDevice, Error)\n+\t\t\t\t\t<< \"Multiple entities match given regex\";\n+\t\t\t\treturn nullptr;\n+\t\t\t}\n+\n+\t\t\tentity = e;\n+\t\t}\n+\t}\n+\n+\treturn entity;\n+}\n+\n /**\n  * \\brief Retrieve the MediaLink connecting two pads, identified by entity\n  * names and pad indexes\n",
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        "v2",
        "3/4"
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