> >> - video streaming devices like the davinci videoports where you can hook >> up HDTV receivers or FPGAs: here you definitely need a new API to setup >> the streaming parameters, and you want to be able to do that from the >> application as well. Actually, sensors are also hooked up to these >devices >> in practice. And there you also want to be able to setup these parameters. >> You will see this mostly (only?) on embedded platforms. >> > >I agree we need an in kernel API for this, but why expose it to >userspace, as you say this will only happen on embedded systems, >shouldn't the info then go in a board_info file / struct ? > No we still need a way for application to set these timings at the device. For example, it needs to tell a TVP7002 device to scan at 720p/1080p similar to S_STD. From user prespective, it is just like S_STD. See my email on the details... >Regards, > >Hans -- 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
