Em Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:21:48 +0200 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > Hi all, > > I've started this as a new thread to prevent polluting the discussions of the > media controller as a concept. > > First of all, I have no doubt that everything that you can do with an ioctl, > you can also do with sysfs and vice versa. That's not the problem here. > > The problem is deciding which approach is the best. True. Choosing the better approach is very important since, once merged, we'll need to stick it for a very long time. I saw your proposal of a ioctl-only implementation for the media control. It is important to have a sysfs implementation also to compare. I can do it. However, we are currently in the middle of a merge window, and this one will require even more time than usual, since we have 2 series of patches for soc_camera and for DaVinci/OMAP that depends on arm and omap architecture merge. Also, there are some pending merges that requires some time to analyze, like the ISDB-T/ISDB-S patches and API changes that were proposed for 2.6.32, that requiring the analysis of both Japanese and Brazilian specs and do some tests, and the tuner changes for better handling the i2c gates, and the V4L and DVB specs that we can now merge upstream, as both got converted to DocBook XML 4.1.2 (the same version used upstream). So, during the next two weeks, we'll have enough fun to handle, in order to get our patches merged for 2.6.32. So, unfortunately, I'm afraid that we'll need to give a break on those discussions until the end of the merge window, focusing on merging the patches we have for 2.6.32. Cheers, Mauro -- 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
