Hi Hans, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:19:17 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 01:47:42 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > After the conversion of Zoran driver to V4L2, now almost all drivers are > > using the new API. However, there are is one remaining driver using the > > video_decoder.h API (based on V4L1 API) for message exchange between the > > bridge driver and the i2c sensor: the vino driver. > > > > This driver adds support for the Indy webcam and for a capture hardware > > on SGI. Does someone have those hardware? If so, are you interested on > > helping to convert those drivers to fully use V4L2 API? > > > > The SGI driver is located at: > > drivers/media/video/vino.c > > > > Due to vino, those two drivers are also using the old API: > > drivers/media/video/indycam.c > > drivers/media/video/saa7191.c > > > > It shouldn't be hard to convert those files to use the proper APIs, but > > AFAIK none of the current active developers has any hardware for testing > > it. > > The conversion has already been done in my v4l-dvb-vino tree. I'm trying to > convince the original vino author to boot up his Indy and test it, but he > is not very interested in doing that. I'll ask him a few more times, but we > may have to just merge my code untested. Or perhaps just drop it. > > Jean, I remember you mentioning that you wouldn't mind if the i2c-algo-sgi > code could be dropped which is only used by vino. How important is that to > you? Perhaps we are flogging a dead horse here and we should just let this > driver die. My rant was based on the fact that i2c-algo-sgi is totally SGI-specific while i2c-algo-* modules are supposed to be generic abstractions that can be reused by a variety of hardware. So i2c-algo-sgi should really be merged into drivers/media/video/vino.c. But as it takes a SGI system to build-test such a change, and I don't have one, I am reluctant to do it. If we can find a tester for your V4L2 conversion then maybe the same tester will be able to test my own changes. But i2c-algo-sgi isn't a big problem per se, it doesn't block further evolutions or anything like that, so if we can't find a tester and it has to stay for a few more years, this really isn't a problem for me. -- Jean Delvare -- 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
