Re: [Q] What's preventing solo6x10 driver from moving out of staging

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Hi Hans,

Dropped Greg from Cc since it's not relevant (and that suse.de address
is broken).

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21/06/12 17:08, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> solo6x10 TODO file says this:
>>
>> TODO (staging =>  main):
>>
>>         * Motion detection flags need to be moved to v4l2
>>         * Some private CIDs need to be moved to v4l2
>>
>> But I could not find any v4l2 motion detection flag. I guess it's a
>> new kind of flag that needs to be added.
>
>
> I don't know about the motion detection part, but I do know that any ioctls
> and/or controls relating to video compression need to be reviewed in light
> of
> the support for H264 etc. that was added some time ago.
>
> I actually have a device, but I haven't had time to play with it and clean
> it
> up.
>
>
>> Also, what happened with the mainline effort? (Assuming there was one :-)
>
>
> Well, when the new compression API was discussed I made sure that bluecherry
> was CC-ed, but no action was taken from their side.

Do you mean this api?

http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/extended-controls.html#mpeg-controls

>
> In other words, it seems unmaintained at the moment. Which is a shame, since
> the code is actually fairly clean.
>
> I've just scanned through the code and it looks like it wouldn't take too
> much
> work to get it out of staging.

Yes, does was my impression.

Regards,
Ezequiel.
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