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    "date": "2024-08-27T16:42:52",
    "name": "[v2,0/3] Fix uvcvideo pipelinehandler keeping /dev/video# open",
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        "From": "Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Cc": "Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@redhat.com>, \n\tHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v2 0/3] Fix uvcvideo pipelinehandler keeping /dev/video# open",
        "Date": "Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:42:52 +0200",
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    "content": "Hi all,\n\nThe uvcvideo pipeline handler always keeps the uvcvideo /dev/video# device\nfor a pipeline open after enumerating the camera.\n\nThis is a problem for uvcvideo, as keeping the /dev/video# node open stops\nthe underlying USB device and the USB bus controller from being able to\nenter runtime-suspend causing significant unnecessary power-usage.\n\nHere is v2 of my series making the uvcvideo pipeline handler open\n/dev/video# on acquire and close it on release to fix this.\n\nChanges in v2:\n- Drop the first 2 patches these have already been merged\n- Add a note to both the doxygen documentation as well as to the commit\n  messages that opening/closing /dev/video# from acquire()/release()\n  as done by the uvcvideo pipeline handler is an exception and that this\n  behavior should not be copied by other pipeline handlers\n- Other doxygen doc fixes / improvements\n- Only unlock media devices on acquireDevice() failure if useCount_ == 0\n- Drop PipelineHandler::lock_, update \"\\context\" in doxygen docs\n\nI've pushed this to the software-isp gitlab repo for CI:\nhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/camera/libcamera-softisp/-/commits/pipeline-acquireDevice-v2\n\nand it has passed CI.\n\nRegards,\n\nHans\n\n\nHans de Goede (3):\n  pipeline_handler: Add acquireDevice() method to mirror existing\n    releaseDevice()\n  camera: Use invokeMethod() for pipe_->acquire() and pipe_->release()\n  uvcvideo: Implement acquireDevice() + releaseDevice()\n\n include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h |  8 +--\n src/libcamera/camera.cpp                      |  6 +-\n src/libcamera/pipeline/uvcvideo/uvcvideo.cpp  | 45 ++++++++++++++\n src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp            | 60 ++++++++++++++-----\n 4 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)"
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