Hi Mauro, Thank you for the patch. Trimming the CC list to keep a few mailing lists only. On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 08:12:05AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > media Kconfig has two entries associated to V4L API: > VIDEO_DEV and VIDEO_V4L2. > > On Kernel 2.6.x, there were two V4L APIs, each one with its own flag. > VIDEO_DEV were meant to: > 1) enable Video4Linux and make its Kconfig options to appear; > 2) it makes the Kernel build the V4L core. > > while VIDEO_V4L2 where used to distinguish between drivers that > implement the newer API and drivers that implemented the former one. > > With time, such meaning changed, specially after the removal of > all V4L version 1 drivers. > > At the current implementation, VIDEO_DEV only does (1): it enables > the media options related to V4L, that now has: > > menu "Video4Linux options" > visible if VIDEO_DEV > > source "drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig" > endmenu > > but it doesn't affect anymore the V4L core drivers. > > The rationale is that the V4L2 core has a "soft" dependency > at the I2C bus, and now requires to select a number of other > Kconfig options: > > config VIDEO_V4L2 > tristate > depends on (I2C || I2C=n) && VIDEO_DEV > select RATIONAL > select VIDEOBUF2_V4L2 if VIDEOBUF2_CORE > default (I2C || I2C=n) && VIDEO_DEV > > In the past, merging them would be tricky, but it seems that it is now > possible to merge those symbols, in order to simplify V4L dependencies. > > Let's keep VIDEO_DEV, as this one is used on some make *defconfig > configurations. I would have gone for VIDEO_V4L2, but if it makes configuration changes easier to handle, VIDEO_DEV is fine with me too. > Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/input/rmi4/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/Kconfig | 3 + > drivers/media/common/saa7146/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/dvb-core/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/dvb-frontends/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig | 250 +++++++++--------- > drivers/media/i2c/ccs/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/i2c/et8ek8/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/i2c/m5mols/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/cobalt/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/cx18/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/dt3155/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/meye/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/saa7146/Kconfig | 6 +- > drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/tw5864/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/tw68/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/pci/tw686x/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 6 +- > drivers/media/platform/allegro-dvt/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/am437x/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/amphion/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/aspeed/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/atmel/Kconfig | 8 +- > drivers/media/platform/cadence/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/platform/coda/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/davinci/Kconfig | 12 +- > drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/intel/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/marvell-ccic/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/platform/meson/ge2d/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/mtk-jpeg/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/mtk-mdp/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/nxp/Kconfig | 8 +- > drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/omap/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/renesas/Kconfig | 12 +- > .../media/platform/renesas/rcar-vin/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rga/Kconfig | 2 +- > .../media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/s3c-camif/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/s5p-g2d/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/s5p-jpeg/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/sti/delta/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/stm32/Kconfig | 4 +- > .../media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/Kconfig | 2 +- > .../media/platform/sunxi/sun6i-csi/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun8i-di/Kconfig | 2 +- > .../media/platform/sunxi/sun8i-rotate/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/tegra/vde/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/platform/via/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/platform/xilinx/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/radio/Kconfig | 54 ++-- > drivers/media/radio/si470x/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/radio/wl128x/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/spi/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/test-drivers/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/test-drivers/vicodec/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/test-drivers/vivid/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/tuners/Kconfig | 6 +- > drivers/media/tuners/e4000.c | 6 +- > drivers/media/tuners/fc2580.c | 6 +- > drivers/media/usb/airspy/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/au0828/Kconfig | 6 +- > drivers/media/usb/cpia2/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/Kconfig | 8 +- > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/Kconfig | 4 +- > drivers/media/usb/gspca/Kconfig | 96 +++---- > drivers/media/usb/gspca/gl860/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/gspca/m5602/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/hackrf/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/msi2500/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/pwc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/s2255/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/usbtv/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/uvc/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig | 12 +- > drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/Kconfig | 14 +- > drivers/staging/media/hantro/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/imx/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/ipu3/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/max96712/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/media/zoran/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/most/video/Kconfig | 2 +- > .../vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/Kconfig | 2 +- > sound/pci/Kconfig | 4 +- > 116 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 368 deletions(-) [snip] > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/tw5864/Kconfig b/drivers/media/pci/tw5864/Kconfig > index d376d4ed65b9..0a0f3191f238 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/pci/tw5864/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/tw5864/Kconfig > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > config VIDEO_TW5864 > tristate "Techwell TW5864 video/audio grabber and encoder" > - depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && VIDEO_V4L2 > + depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && VIDEO_DEV You can drop the second VIDEO_DEV. > select VIDEOBUF2_DMA_CONTIG > help > Support for boards based on Techwell TW5864 chip which provides > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/tw68/Kconfig b/drivers/media/pci/tw68/Kconfig > index af0cb60337bb..ef29be7db493 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/pci/tw68/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/tw68/Kconfig > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > config VIDEO_TW68 > tristate "Techwell tw68x Video For Linux" > - depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && VIDEO_V4L2 > + depends on VIDEO_DEV && PCI && VIDEO_DEV Here too. Apart from that, the patch looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I have however not evaluated the impact it will have on make oldconfig. > select VIDEOBUF2_DMA_SG > help > Support for Techwell tw68xx based frame grabber boards. [snip] -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart