Hi Vaibhav, On Tuesday 06 September 2011 16:12:35 Hiremath, Vaibhav wrote: > On Monday, September 05, 2011 6:20 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Sunday 04 September 2011 15:32:28 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > <snip> > > > I don't mind splitting the config option. An alternative would be to > > compile media_entity_init() and media_entity_cleanup() based on > > CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT instead of CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER, but that looks a > > bit hackish to me. > > > > > Also, I don't like the idea of increasing drivers complexity for the > > > existing drivers that work properly without MC. All those core > > > conversions that were done in the last two years caused already too much > > > instability to them. > > > > > > We should really avoid touching on them again for something that won't > > > be adding any new feature nor fixing any known bug. > > > > We don't have to convert them all in one go right now, we can implement > > pad-level operations support selectively when a subdev driver becomes used > > by an MC-enabled host/bridge driver. > > I completely agree that we should not be duplicating the code just for sake > of it. > > Isn't the wrapper approach seems feasible here? As explained in a previous e-mail, a wrapper sounds like a good approach to me, to emulate video::* operations based on pad::* operations. We want to move to pad::* operations, so we should not perform emulation the other way around. -- 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
