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    "msgid": "<20190124101651.9993-1-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>",
    "date": "2019-01-24T10:16:41",
    "name": "[libcamera-devel,00/10] Hotplug support and object lifetime management",
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        "From": "Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
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        "Subject": "[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Hotplug support and object lifetime\n\tmanagement",
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    "content": "Hello everybody,\n\nThis patch series implements hotplug support in libcamera, and handles\nall the lifetime management-related fallouts.\n\nThe first two patches, 01/10 and 02/10, are simple cleanups. The real\nfun begins with pPatch 03/10 that stores a reference to the pipeline\nhandler in the camera, turning PipelineHandler into shared pointers.\nPatch 04/10 turns MediaDevice into shared pointers as well, due to the\nneed to support hot-unplug when references to the media device can still\nexist. This results in all three core objects related to hotplug,\nMediaDevice, PipelineHandler and Camera, being managed as shared\npointers.\n\nThe next four patches, 05/10 to 08/10, add disconnection support to\nMediaDevice, Camera, CameraManager and PipelineHandler through signals\nand slots. Patch 09/10 marks the media device used by the UVC pipeline\nhandler as hot-pluggable, and patch 10/10 implements unplug detection in\nthe udev enumerator for the last piece of the puzzle.\n\nWhile I hope the architecture is fine, I'm sure there will be lots of\nvarious issues that will be discussed, and I expect a few more versions\nof this series before merging it in the master branch. If the\narchitecture is approved, I would however recommend already depending on\nthis series as it addresses lots of lifetime management problems.\n\nLaurent Pinchart (7):\n  libcamera: pipeline_handler: Store the camera manager pointer\n  libcamera: pipeline_handler: Declare factory children classes as final\n  libcamera: device_enumerator: Reference-count MediaDevice instances\n  libcamera: media_device: Add disconnected signal\n  libcamera: camera_manager: Add method to unregister a camera\n  libcamera: pipeline: uvc: Mark the media device as hotpluggable\n  libcamera: device_enumerator: Add hotplug support\n\nNiklas Söderlund (3):\n  libcamera: camera: Associate cameras with their pipeline handler\n  libcamera: camera: Add disconnection notification\n  libcamera: pipeline_handler: Add camera disconnection support\n\n include/libcamera/camera.h                   |  15 ++-\n include/libcamera/camera_manager.h           |   3 +-\n src/libcamera/camera.cpp                     |  47 +++++++-\n src/libcamera/camera_manager.cpp             |  38 ++++--\n src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp          | 106 ++++++++++++++---\n src/libcamera/include/device_enumerator.h    |  10 +-\n src/libcamera/include/media_device.h         |   4 +\n src/libcamera/include/pipeline_handler.h     |  33 ++++--\n src/libcamera/media_device.cpp               |  10 ++\n src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp         |  32 +++--\n src/libcamera/pipeline/uvcvideo.cpp          |  20 ++--\n src/libcamera/pipeline/vimc.cpp              |  26 ++---\n src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp           | 117 ++++++++++++++++++-\n test/media_device/media_device_link_test.cpp |   2 +-\n test/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3_pipeline_test.cpp    |   2 +-\n 15 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)"
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