1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
index 236ade38f1da..3b3f36357a0e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ static int vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(struct vimc_stream *stream,
         return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * vimc_streamer_thread - process frames through the pipeline
+ *
+ * @data:       vimc_stream struct of the current stream
+ *
+ * From the source to the sink, gets a frame from each subdevice and send to
+ * the next one of the pipeline at a fixed framerate.
+ */
 static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
 {
         struct vimc_stream *stream = data;
@@ -149,6 +157,20 @@ static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
         return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * vimc_streamer_s_stream - start/stop the streaming on the media pipeline
+ *
+ * @stream:     the pointer to the stream structure of the current stream
+ * @ved:        pointer to the vimc entity of the entity of the stream
+ * @enable:     flag to determine if stream should start/stop
+ *
+ * When starting, check if there is no stream->kthread allocated. This should
+ * indicate that a stream is already running. Then, it initializes
+ * the pipeline, creates and runs a kthread to consume buffers through the
+ * pipeline.
+ * When stopping, analogously check if there is a stream running, stop
+ * the thread and terminates the pipeline.
+ */
 int vimc_streamer_s_stream(struct vimc_stream *stream,
                            struct vimc_ent_device *ved,
                            int enable)