The media_entity_remote_pad_first() helper function returns the first
remote pad it finds connected to a given pad. Beside being possibly
non-deterministic (as it stops at the first enabled link), the fact that
it returns the first match makes it unsuitable for drivers that need to
guarantee that a single link is enabled, for instance when an entity can
process data from one of multiple sources at a time.
For those use cases, add a new helper function,
media_entity_remote_pad_unique(), that operates on an entity and returns
a remote pad, with a guarantee that only one link is enabled. To ease
its use in drivers, also add an inline wrapper that locates source pads
specifically. A wrapper that locates sink pads can easily be added when
needed.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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