Em 04-08-2010 17:29, Laurent Pinchart escreveu: > Hi Mauro, > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:38:04 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Em 04-08-2010 09:46, Laurent Pinchart escreveu: >>> On Monday 12 July 2010 17:25:45 Laurent Pinchart wrote: >>>> Hi everybody, >>>> >>>> Here's the third version of the V4L2 subdev userspace API patches. >>>> Comments received on the first and second versions have been >>>> incorporated, including the video_usercopy usage. The generic ioctls >>>> support patch has been dropped and will be resubmitted later with a use >>>> case. >>> >>> Mauro, is there a chance those patches could get in 2.6.36 ? >> >> Unfortunately, the changes are not high. ======= chances - unfortunately typo ;) >> >> I still have lots of patches ready to merge that I received before the >> start of the merge window waiting for me to handle. As you know, we should >> first send the patches to linux-next, and wait for a while, before sending >> them upstream. I won't doubt that this time, we'll have only a 7-days >> window before -rc1. >> >> There are also some other dead lines for this week, including the review of >> LPC proposals. >> >> Finally, one requirement for merging API additions is to have a driver >> using it. In the past, we had bad experiences of adding things at the >> kernel API, but waiting for a very long time for a kernel driver using it, >> as the ones that pushed hard for adding the new API's didn't submitted >> their drivers timely (on some cased it ended by having a driver using the >> new API's several kernel versions later). So, even considering that subdev >> API is ready, we still need to wait for drivers needing it to be >> submitted. So, the better is to analyse and apply it after the end of the >> merge window, on a separate branch, merging it at the main branch after >> receiving a driver needing the new API. > > OK, understood. > > I would still like to get your comments on the patches, if any. Hans has acked > them, and I'd like to make sure you're fine with them as well before pushing > them internally (the less I break the API/ABI, the better for our userspace > developers :-)). I will then keep the patches up-to-date with the mainline > kernel until the OMAP3 ISP driver (and the media controller) is ready for > submission. Sure, I'll carefully review it and provide my comments. This is on my TODO list. 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
