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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
