libcamera: v4l2_subdevice: Create device from entity name

Add a static method to V4L2Subdevice class to create a V4L2Subdevice
instance from a media entity name.

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp b/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
index 10925f9f..0abeaa20 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/v4l2_subdevice.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include "geometry.h"
 #include "log.h"
+#include "media_device.h"
 #include "media_object.h"
 #include "v4l2_subdevice.h"
 
@@ -313,6 +314,27 @@ int V4L2Subdevice::setFormat(unsigned int pad, V4L2SubdeviceFormat *format)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * \brief Create a new video subdevice instance from \a entity in media device
+ * \a media
+ * \param[in] media The media device where the entity is registered
+ * \param[in] entity The media entity name
+ *
+ * Releasing memory of the newly created instance is responsibility of the
+ * caller of this function.
+ *
+ * \return A newly created V4L2Subdevice on success, nullptr otherwise
+ */
+V4L2Subdevice *V4L2Subdevice::fromEntityName(const MediaDevice *media,
+					     const std::string &entity)
+{
+	MediaEntity *mediaEntity = media->getEntityByName(entity);
+	if (!mediaEntity)
+		return nullptr;
+
+	return new V4L2Subdevice(mediaEntity);
+}
+
 std::string V4L2Subdevice::logPrefix() const
 {
 	return "'" + entityName() + "'";