Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit controls from a pipeline

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On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 10:24 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
[...]
> The big question, waiting for an answer on the last 8 years is
> who would do that? Such person would need to have several different
> hardware from different vendors, in order to ensure that it has
> a generic solution.
> 
> It is a way more feasible that the Kernel developers that already 
> have a certain hardware on their hands to add support inside the
> driver to forward the controls through the pipeline and to setup
> a "default" pipeline that would cover the common use cases at
> driver's probe.

Actually, would setting pipeline via libv4l2 plugin and letting drivers
provide a sane enabled default pipeline configuration be mutually
exclusive? Not sure about the control forwarding, but at least a simple
link setup and format forwarding would also be possible in the kernel
without hindering userspace from doing it themselves later.

regards
Philipp

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