diff --git a/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_subdevice.h b/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_subdevice.h
index fa2a4a21eefbb792c69fa6357934d607a009d11a..f65a587c3034df014390863319a350c8fbd4ed5a 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_subdevice.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_subdevice.h
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ public:
 		return formats({ pad, 0 });
 	}
 
+	int bindContext(unsigned int context);
+
 	int getFormat(const Stream &stream, V4L2SubdeviceFormat *format,
 		      Whence whence = ActiveFormat);
 	int getFormat(unsigned int pad, V4L2SubdeviceFormat *format,
diff --git a/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp b/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
index ce6b0d38cbf1a598e6dc73de8cb36ba245ed73f9..9038783bd2975b6b2063a5d60890e2de82c4aa0d 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
@@ -1351,6 +1351,24 @@ std::optional<ColorSpace> V4L2Subdevice::toColorSpace(const v4l2_mbus_framefmt &
 	return V4L2Device::toColorSpace(format, colourEncoding);
 }
 
+/**
+ * \brief Bind a subdevice to a media device context
+ * \param[in] context The file descriptor that identifies the media device
+ * context
+ * \return 0 on success or a negative error code otherwise
+ */
+int V4L2Subdevice::bindContext(unsigned int context)
+{
+	struct v4l2_subdev_bind_context c = {};
+	c.context_fd = context;
+
+	int ret = ioctl(VIDIOC_SUBDEV_BIND_CONTEXT, &c);
+	if (ret)
+		LOG(V4L2, Error) << "Unable to bind context: " << strerror(-ret);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * \brief Retrieve the image format set on one of the V4L2 subdevice streams
  * \param[in] stream The stream the format is to be retrieved from