On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: > I would really like to see the dual mode camera and TV tuner discussion > separated. They are 2 different issues AFAIK. > > 1) Dual mode cameras: > > In the case of the dual mode camera we have 1 single device (both at > the hardware level and at the logical block level), which can do 2 things, > but not at the same time. It can stream live video data from a sensor, > or it can retrieve earlier taken pictures from some picture memory. > > Unfortunately even though these 2 functions live in a single logical block, > historically we've developed 2 drivers for them. This leads to fighting > over device ownership (surprise surprise), and to me the solution is > very clear, 1 logical block == 1 driver. According to Theodore, we have developed 5 drivers for them because the stillcam modes in different devices use four different vendor-specific drivers. Does it really make sense to combine 5 drivers into one? I think some sort of sharing protocol would work out better. Alan Stern -- 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
