Re: [PATCH v2 01/54] media: Add video processing entity functions

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Hi Sakari,

Do you still have issues with this patch ?

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 10:40:05 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:01:55 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Add composer, format converter and scaler functions, as well as generic
> > > video processing to be used when no other processing function is
> > > applicable.
> > 
> > How are these intended to be used?
> > 
> > Say, if a sub-device implements functionality that matches more than one
> > of these, do you pick one?
> 
> The whole point of functions is that they're not mutually exclusive, and the
> full list of functions will be reported as properties for the entity. The
> function field of the media entity structure stores the main function only.
>
> > Supposedly you control at least some of this functionality using the
> > selections API, and frankly, I think the way it's currently defined in the
> > spec worked okay-ish for the devices at hand at the time, but defining
> > that the order of processing from the sink towards the source is sink
> > crop, sink compose and then source crop is not generic. We should have a
> > better way to tell this, using a similar API which is used to control the
> > functionality, just as is done with V4L2 controls.
> 
> Sure, but how is that related to this patch ? :-)
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++
> > >  include/uapi/linux/media.h                      |  8 ++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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