Re: [PATCH 2.6.39] soc_camera: OMAP1: fix missing bytesperline and sizeimage initialization

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:

> Dnia niedziela 10 kwiecieÅ 2011 o 18:00:14 Guennadi Liakhovetski 
> napisaÅ(a):
> > Hi Janusz
> > 
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> > > Since commit 0e4c180d3e2cc11e248f29d4c604b6194739d05a, bytesperline
> > > and sizeimage memebers of v4l2_pix_format structure have no longer
> > > been calculated inside soc_camera_g_fmt_vid_cap(), but rather
> > > passed via soc_camera_device structure from a host driver callback
> > > invoked by soc_camera_set_fmt().
> > > 
> > > OMAP1 camera host driver has never been providing these parameters,
> > > so it no longer works correctly. Fix it by adding suitable
> > > assignments to omap1_cam_set_fmt().
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch, but now it looks like many soc-camera host
> > drivers are re-implementing this very same calculation in different
> > parts of their code - in try_fmt, set_fmt, get_fmt. Why don't we
> > unify them all, implement this centrally in soc_camera.c and remove
> > all those calculations? 
> 
> Wasn't it already unified before commit in question?

Please test the patch, I've sent a minute ago.

Thanks
Guennadi

> 
> > Could you cook up a patch or maybe several
> > patches - for soc_camera.c and all drivers?
> 
> Perhaps I could, as soon as I found some spare time, but first I'd have 
> to really understand why we need bytesperline or sizeimage handling 
> being changed from how they worked before commit 
> 0e4c180d3e2cc11e248f29d4c604b6194739d05a was introduced. I never had a 
> need to customize bytesperline or sizeimage calculations in my driver. 
> 
> But even then, I think these new patches would rather qualify for next 
> merge window, while the OMAP1 driver case is just a regression, caused 
> by an alredy applied, unrelated change to the underlying framework, and 
> requires a fix if that change is not going to be reverted.
> 
> Maybe the author of the change, Sergio Aguirre form TI (CCing him), 
> could rework his patch in a way which wouldn't impose, as a side effect, 
> the new requirement of those structure members being passed from host 
> drivers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Janusz
> 

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