On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:22:34 +0100 > Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > (adding Guennadi to Cc) > > > > On 11/02/14 17:36, Philipp Zabel wrote: > > > 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? > > > > drivers/media sounds like a good alternative to me. > > From my side, I'm ok with putting them at drivers/media. You may add my acked-by > for such change: > > Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cannot see any problems with this Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> Thanks Guennadi > > I would just remove also v4l2_of_{parse/get}* and update the users > > to call of_graph_* directly, there should not be many of them. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Sylwester > > -- > > Cheers, > Mauro > --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- 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
