Hi Hans, On Sunday 04 April 2010 17:41:51 Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > The support in drivers for the V4L2 control API is currently very chaotic. > Few if any drivers support the API correctly. Especially the support for > the new extended controls is very much hit and miss. > > Combine that with the requirements for the upcoming embedded devices that > will want to use controls much more actively and you end up with a big > mess. > > I've wanted to fix this for a long time and last week I finally had the > time. > > The new framework works like a charm and massively reduces the complexity > in drivers when it comes to control handling. And just as importantly, any > driver that uses it is fully compliant to the V4L spec. Something that > application writers will appreciate. Thanks for working on this. [snip] > There is one thing though that needs to be proven first: can uvc use it as > well? The UVC driver is unusual in that it can dynamically add controls. > > The framework should be able to handle this, but it would be great if > Laurent can take a good look at it. I really wish I could do it now, but I won't have time to work on this before two weeks. I'm sorry about that. -- 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
