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    "date": "2022-12-13T09:37:59",
    "name": "[libcamera-devel,0/3] lc-compliance: Fix SimpleCapture test",
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        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Date": "Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:37:59 +0900",
        "Message-Id": "<20221213093802.704177-1-paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>",
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        "Subject": "[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 0/3] lc-compliance: Fix SimpleCapture test",
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        "From": "Paul Elder via libcamera-devel <libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org>",
        "Reply-To": "Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>",
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    "content": "This series fixes bug 171 [1] *properly*.\n\nThis issue was that a Request was reused and not queued to the Camera,\nthen the buffers were freed before the Requests were destroyed, causing\nthe Requests to cancel the freed buffers -> segfault.\n\nTechnically this isn't an issue anymore because of \"lc-compliance:\nsimple_capture: Free Requests properly\" [2], but still this fix is more\nproper.\n\nFix this by reusing the Requests only if they will be queued to the\nCamera.\n\nAdditionally, add a note about this issue to the application developer\nguide, and a todo regarding a potential race condition in\nCamera::queueRequest.\n\n[1] https://bugs.libcamera.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171\n[2] https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/libcamera.git/commit/?id=9a913eb9107483fcea01bd0e82c21e3733a5ddb2\n\nPaul Elder (3):\n  lc-compliance: simple_capture: Fix Request reuse\n  Documentation: application-developer: Elaborate on request reuse\n  libcamera: camera: Add todo for race condition on queueRequest\n\n Documentation/guides/application-developer.rst |  4 ++++\n src/apps/lc-compliance/simple_capture.cpp      |  2 +-\n src/libcamera/camera.cpp                       | 15 +++++++++++++++\n 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)"
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