Since when we start discussions about the usage Media Controller for complex hardware, one thing become clear: the way it is, MC fails to map anything more complex than a webcam. The point is that MC has entities named as devnodes, but the only devnode used (before the DVB patches) is MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_V4L. Due to the way MC got implemented, however, this entity actually doesn't represent the devnode, but the hardware I/O engine that receives data via DMA. By coincidence, such DMA is associated with the V4L device node on webcam hardware, but this is not true even for other V4L2 devices. For example, on USB hardware, the DMA is done via the USB controller. The data passes though a in-kernel filter that strips off the URB headers. Other V4L2 devices like radio may not even have DMA. When it have, the DMA is done via ALSA, and not via the V4L devnode. In other words, MC is broken as a hole, but tagging it as BROKEN right now would do more harm than good. So, instead, let's mark, for now, the DVB part as broken and block all new changes to it while we don't fix this mess, with we hopefully will do for the next Kernel version. Requested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/Kconfig b/drivers/media/Kconfig index 3ef0f90b128f..157099243d61 100644 --- a/drivers/media/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/media/Kconfig @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ config MEDIA_CONTROLLER config MEDIA_CONTROLLER_DVB bool "Enable Media controller for DVB" depends on MEDIA_CONTROLLER + depends on BROKEN ---help--- Enable the media controller API support for DVB. -- 2.4.2 -- 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
