RE: [PATCH 3/3 v2] v4l: Set proper timestamp type in selected drivers which use videobuf2

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Hi Sakari,

> From: Sakari Ailus [mailto:sakari.ailus@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:12 PM
> 

[snip]

> > >
> > > Do you have a list of those other drivers using vb2 that will
> report
> > > an unknown timestamp type ?
> >
> > Here are the drivers:
> >
> > drivers/media/platform/coda.c
> > drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c
> > drivers/media/platform/m2m-deinterlace.c
> > drivers/media/platform/marvell-ccic/mcam-core.c
> > drivers/media/platform/mem2mem_testdev.c
> > drivers/media/platform/mx2_emmaprp.c
> > drivers/media/platform/s5p-fimc/fimc-m2m.c
> > drivers/media/platform/s5p-g2d/g2d.c
> > drivers/media/platform/s5p-jpeg/jpeg-core.c
> > drivers/media/platform/s5p-tv/mixer_video.c
> >
> > These drivers do not fill the timestamp field at all.
> 
> I wonder what should we do to those. Based on a quick look, only mcam-
> core.c and s5p-tv/mixer_video.c seem not to be mem-to-mem devices. So
> the rest should be COPY, I presume. At least the one I checked seem to
> have 1:1 ratio between output and capture buffers.
> 
> I know you didn't break them; they were already broken... But I don't
> think it'd be that big task to fix them either. Now that your patchset
> introduces the COPY timestamp it'd be nice to see it being properly
> used, rather than letting applications see lots of UNKNOWN timestamps
> again. Do you think you could have time for that?

I agree that they should fixed by adding proper timestamp handling (copy).
Currently I have other tasks to do, I might find some time next week to
write the patch. I think that the fix for these drivers can be separate to
this patch set.

Best wishes,
-- 
Kamil Debski
Linux Platform Group
Samsung Poland R&D Center



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