Hi Hans, On Monday 01 December 2008, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 13:31:25 Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Monday 01 December 2008, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > Hi Mauro, > > > > > > Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-ng for > > > the following: > > > > > > - v4l2: add v4l2_device and v4l2_subdev structs to the v4l2 > > > framework. - v4l2-common: add i2c helper functions > > > - cs53l32a: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - cx25840: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - m52790: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - msp3400: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - saa7115: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - saa7127: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - saa717x: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - tuner: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - upd64031a: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - upd64083: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - vp27smpx: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - wm8739: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - wm8775: convert to v4l2_subdev. > > > - ivtv/ivtvfb: convert to v4l2_device/v4l2_subdev. > > > > > > All points raised in reviews are addressed so I think it is time to > > > get this merged so people can start to use it. > > > > Does linuxtv.org and Mercurial provide the necessary infrastructure > > to integrate those changes into the v4l-dvb repository while not > > pushing them upstream yet ? I'd like to see more people testing (and > > breaking and fixing :-)) your changes before they reach the mainline > > kernel. > > That's basically why I want this to go into the v4l-dvb repository: this > makes it easier for people to start working with it. It doesn't affect > existing drivers, except for the i2c driver changes and those changes > are just transforming a big switch to a set of functions. So I really > consider this a pretty low-risk merge. > > If someone is willing to do some testing with my tree in the next two > weeks then I don't mind waiting, but it's been in development now from > early September (if not earlier) and been reviewed several times. In > addition, ivtv has been modified to work with it and that driver uses > more sub-devices by far than any other driver. > > I don't know what more I can do, to be honest. I am all for pushing the changes to the v4l-dvb repository so they can get broader testing. I am, however, a bit more concerned about pushing the changes to Linus yet. Shouldn't it wait until you convert other drivers and make the v4l2_device (infra)structure more powerful, as you announced you would ? There will probably be API/ABI breakage then, it patches will probably benefit from a few iterations in v4l-dvb before we push them to mainline. I don't know if that's possible at all, or if all changes in v4l-dvb are automatically selected for a push to the git repository whenever Mauro triggers the hg->git process. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html