Hi Shuah, On Thursday 15 Dec 2016 07:56:55 Shuah Khan wrote: > On 12/15/2016 03:39 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 15:23:53 Shuah Khan wrote: [snip] > >> Please don't pursue this RFC series that makes mc-core changes until > >> ompa3 driver problems are addressed. There is no need to change the > >> core unless it is necessary. > > > > It is necessary as has been explained countless times, and will become > > more and more necessary as media_device instances get shared between > > multiple drivers, which is currently attempted *without* reference > > counting. > > You are probably forgetting the Media Device Allocator API work I did > to make media_device sharable across media and audio drivers. I haven't. How could I forget it ? :-) Media device sharing is important, and will become even more so in the future. > Sakari's patches don't address the sharable need. That's correct. > I have been asking Sakari to use Media Device Allocator API in his patch > series for allocating media device. That's where I disagree. The more we dig the more we realize that the current infrastructure is broken. Adding anything on top of a construction that is on the verge of collapsing isn't a good idea until the foundations have been fixed and consolidated. > I discussed the conflicts between the work I am doing and Sakari's series > to find a common ground. But it doesn't look like we are going to get there. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
