From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>,
Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] media: add glossary.rst with a glossary of terms used at V4L2 spec
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:15:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171010061339.67584102@vento.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171006115105.wqabs3cm34gdy3w5@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk>
Em Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:51:06 +0300
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 01:22:29PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > + V4L2 device node
> > > + A device node that is associated to a V4L2 main driver,
> > > + as specified in :ref:`v4l2_device_naming`.
>
> I think we need to name the interface, not so much their instances.
>
> How about adding:
>
> V4L2
> Video4Linux 2 interface. The interface implemented by **V4L2 device
> nodes**.
>
> and:
>
> V4L2 device node
> A device node implementing the **V4L2** interface.
Not sure if I answered it already. subdev API is part of V4L2.
So, a change like that would cause more harm than good ;-)
The definition should let it clear that only the devnodes
implemented by the V4L2 main driver are considered as
V4L2 device nodes.
Regards,
Mauro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 22:23 [PATCH v7 0/7] document types of hardware control for V4L2 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] media: add glossary.rst with a glossary of terms used at V4L2 spec Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-06 10:22 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-06 11:51 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 9:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2017-10-10 11:54 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 12:49 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 22:18 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-11 10:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 8:30 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 8:56 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 8:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 8:54 ` [PATCH] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 7:47 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] " Hans Verkuil
2017-10-10 8:20 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 8:27 ` Hans Verkuil
2017-10-10 8:36 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] media: open.rst: better document device node naming Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] media: open.rst: remove the minor number range Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] media: open.rst: document devnode-centric and mc-centric types Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-09-28 1:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-06 12:24 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 11:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] media: open.rst: Adjust some terms to match the glossary Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-06 12:48 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 11:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-10 22:41 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-11 9:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] media: videodev2: add a flag for MC-centric devices Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-29 6:27 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 7:58 ` Hans Verkuil
2017-09-27 22:23 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] media: open.rst: add a notice about subdev-API on vdev-centric Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-29 6:26 ` Sakari Ailus
2017-10-10 8:02 ` Hans Verkuil
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