Am Dienstag, den 11.02.2014, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Laurent Pinchart: > Hi Russell, > > On Tuesday 11 February 2014 14:52:48 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:56:33AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote: > > > > This allows to reuse the same parser code from outside the V4L2 > > > > framework, most importantly from display drivers. There have been > > > > patches that duplicate the code (and I am going to send one of my own), > > > > such as > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-August/043308.html > > > > and others that parse the same binding in a different way: > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg100761.html > > > > > > > > I think that all common video interface parsing helpers should be moved > > > > to a single place, outside of the specific subsystems, so that it can > > > > be reused by all drivers. > > > > > > Perhaps that should be done rather than moving to drivers/of now and > > > then again to somewhere else. > > > > Do you have a better suggestion where it should move to? > > > > drivers/gpu/drm - no, because v4l2 wants to use it > > drivers/media/video - no, because DRM drivers want to use it > > drivers/video - no, because v4l2 and drm drivers want to use it > > Just pointing out a missing location (which might be rejected due to similar > concerns), there's also drivers/media, which isn't V4L-specific. Since drivers/Makefile has media/ in obj-y, moving the graph helpers to drivers/media should technically work. > > Maybe drivers/of-graph/ ? Or maybe it's just as good a place to move it > > into drivers/of ? include/media/of_graph.h, drivers/media/of_graph.c? regards Philipp -- 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
