Em Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:56:10 +0100 Hans Verkuil <hansverk@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Wed 28 November 2012 12:45:37 Dan Carpenter wrote: > > I wish people wouldn't submit big patches right before the merge > > window opens... :/ It's better to let it sit in linux-next for a > > couple weeks so people can mess with it a bit. > > It's been under review for quite some time now, and the main change since > the last posted version is that this is now moved to staging/media. > > So it is not yet ready for prime time, but we do want it in to simplify > the last remaining improvements needed to move it to drivers/media. "last remaining improvements"? I didn't review the patchset, but the TODO list seems to have several pending stuff there: +- User space interface refinement + - Controls should be used when possible rather than private ioctl + - No enums should be used + - Use of MC and V4L2 subdev APIs when applicable + - Single interface header might suffice + - Current interface forces to configure everything at once +- Get rid of the dm365_ipipe_hw.[ch] layer +- Active external sub-devices defined by link configuration; no strcmp + needed +- More generic platform data (i2c adapters) +- The driver should have no knowledge of possible external subdevs; see + struct vpfe_subdev_id +- Some of the hardware control should be refactorede +- Check proper serialisation (through mutexes and spinlocks) +- Names that are visible in kernel global namespace should have a common + prefix (or a few) >From the above comments, both Kernelspace and Userspace APIs require lots of work. Also, it is not clear at all if this is a fork of the existing davinci driver, or if it is a completely new driver for an already-supported hardware, making very hard (if not impossible) to review it, and, if it is yet-another-driver for the same hardware, moving it out of staging will be a big issue, as it won't be trivial to check for regressions introduced by a different driver. > > I'm happy with this going in given the circumstances. Well, I'm not. -- Regards, 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
