2017-10-16 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Alexandre, > > Thank you very much for working on this. Much appreciated! > > I only did a very high-level review of the patch series: there is not much > point IMHO of doing a detailed review given the upcoming discussions in > Prague. It's better to wait until we agree with the high-level API. > > Regarding the public API: the ioctls seem sane. It's all very similar to the > other implementations we've seen. > > I'm still not sure about the name 'job', but this is 'just' a naming issue. > > The part where I have more doubts is the need to create a new device node. > > For the upcoming meeting I would like to discuss whether this cannot be added > to the media API. > > Originally the plan was that the media API would be subsystem-agnostic and could > also be used by ALSA/DRM/etc. This never happened and I also am not aware of any > movement in that area. > > I am wondering whether we should just be realistic and abandon the 'subsystem > agnostic' part and be willing to add e.g. the job support to the media API. Stupid question here: is there any techinically possible way to support it through the media API while being subsystem agnostic? Gustavo
