Android P camera error

Products Support HiKey
#1

Hello,
I’m working with a camera on hikey android P, I get this errors as follow, who can help me?

I CameraProviderManager: Connecting to new camera provider: legacy/0, isRemote? 1
I CameraProviderManager: Enumerating new camera device: device@3.2/legacy/0
I CameraProviderManager: Enumerating new camera device: device@3.2/legacy/1
I CameraProviderManager: Camera provider legacy/0 ready with 2 camera devices
I CameraHardwareInterface: Opening camera 0
E CameraHardwareInterface: initialize: openSession failed! No such file or directory (-2)
E CameraFlashlight: connectCameraDevice: initializing camera 0 failed
I CameraHardwareInterface: Destroying camera 0
E CameraFlashlight: findFlashUnits: failed to check if camera 0 has a flash unit. No such file or directory (-2)

Thanks&Kind regards.

#2

What camera are you using (USB?) and what modification did you apply to the build to enable this camera?

#3

Hi Loic,
Thanks in advance.
I used a USB camera, my AOSP version is P and security patch is October 5, 2017.
I found the camera service was running well, I have no idea what caused this error:
CameraHardwareInterface: initialize: openSession failed! No such file or directory (-2)
I think if this error is fixed, the camera will be OK.

Kind regards.

#4

Hi Loic,

status_t CameraHardwareInterface::initialize(sp manager) {
ALOGI(“Opening camera %s”, mName.string());
status_t ret = manager->openSession(mName.string(), this, &mHidlDevice);
if (ret != OK) {
ALOGE("%s: openSession failed! %s (%d)", FUNCTION, strerror(-ret), ret);
}
return ret;
}

What caused this function cannot be implemented?

Kind regards.

#5

So i’m pretty sure AOSP doesn’t support usb camera out of the box. you will need to create a usb camera hal (i’m not sure if aosp has usb camera hal in source) and enable v4l2 in kernel which i know is disabled by default.
These are the minimum steps required afaik.

#6

Correct, AFAIK, there is ongoing effort to support V4l2 interface and so USB camera, i’ll check tthat.

#7

So the android-x86 project already has that enable. I never got around to look into that.

#8

Hi Loic & ric96,
How to fix AOSP build error as this :

[ 0% 1/56722] build out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/sepolicy_neverallows
FAILED: out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/sepolicy_neverallows
/bin/bash -c “(rm -f out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/sepolicy_neverallows ) && (ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 out/host/linux-x86/bin/checkpolicy -M -c 30 -o out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/sepolicy_neverallows out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/policy.conf )”
device/linaro/hikey/sepolicy/hostapd.te:4:ERROR ‘unknown type hostapd’ at token ‘;’ on line 45529:

hostapd no longer directly accesses /data outside /data/vendor.

typeattribute hostapd data_between_core_and_vendor_violators;
checkpolicy: error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
out/host/linux-x86/bin/checkpolicy: loading policy configuration from out/target/product/hikey970/obj/ETC/sepolicy_neverallows_intermediates/policy.conf
13:17:01 ninja failed with: exit status 1

Thanks & kind regards

#9

‘hostapd’ does not seem to be a defined selinux/sepolicy type in your setup, usually it’s define in

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/sepolicy/+/ad3cb39/hostapd.te

#10

Loic, your meaning is using this file instead of ‘device/linaro/hikey/sepolicy/hostapd.te’ ?

Kind regards.

#11

I’m guessing that you are trying to build AOSP as per the device documentation, which means that this is the source of your device repository;

Am I correct?

If so, then it looks like that device repository is based off of the hikey[/960] repository, and in particular, its a pretty old fork of that. You would probably be well advised to follow the evolution of the hikey[/960] repository and apply similar changes to your 970.

For example;
The hostapd.te file was DELETED from the hikey[/960] repository.
https://android.googlesource.com/device/linaro/hikey/+/5ea6bb3d6cca3ab43edf62bb31d39dfbd8aee625^!/#F0

#12

Thank you, doitright,
Let me have a try.
Kind regards