On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:30:56 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:51:04 +0100 > > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Mauro, > > > > Is it possible to merge the v4l2 spec from my tree soon? With all the > > various new API additions that are being discussed it would help a lot > > if they can also make patches against the documentation at the same > > time. > > I'd like to give a few more days to Michael Schimek to ack on this. Since > we are in a period of the year where lots of people gets vacation, it is > better to give Michael some more time on this. I haven't heard from him since my first mail on this subject on December 7th. That's almost two months ago! Even in Europe people don't have that much vacation time :-) > > BTW, I'm working on improving the qv4l2 tool to make it much more > > useful for testing. I'm integrating it with the v4lconvert lib and > > added capture support as well. It should become a proper testbench for > > drivers. All the other tools around are really crappy, so I decided to > > extend qv4l2 instead. > > Good news! IMO, you should also add the new tool to get sysfs patch > integrated on it. I was planning to do it later, but, since you're > already working with qv4l2, maybe you can add this feature on it as well. > The drawback is that it requires libsysfs-devel in order to compile. > Maybe this can be an optional feature. Can you give me a pointer? I've no idea what you are referring to. > > I've also bought a bunch of old hardware from ebay. I should be able to > > test various old v4l1 drivers and convert them to v4l2. I basically > > want to be able to test pretty much the whole v4l2 API, preferably with > > qv4l2. Yesterday two webcams came in, so I can now test w9968cf and > > se401. > > Great! IMO, the better would be to make those cams as sub-drivers of > gspca. That was my idea as well. > > Check out my qv4l2 tree for progress on this tool! > > I'll take a look soon. > > > Now all I need is lots more time :-( > > I know what you're meaning... I'm also needing more time here... I just > wrote some tools to help me with patchwork stuff. Hopefully, this week, > I'll have all pending patches (there that aren't being reviewed by > somebody else) updated. Cool. Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
