Re: [PATCH] usbvision: remove (broken) image format conversion

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 26-04-2011 17:40, Ondrej Zary escreveu:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2011 14:33:20 Hans Verkuil wrote:

> After digging in the code for hours, I'm giving this up. It's not worth it.
> 
> The ISOC_MODE_YUV422 mode works as V4L2_PIX_FMT_YVYU with VLC and 
> mplayer+libv4lconvert, reducing the loop (and dropping strech_*) in 
> usbvision_parse_lines_422() to:
>  scratch_get(usbvision, frame->data + (frame->v4l2_linesize * frame->curline),
>  2 * frame->frmwidth);
> 
> The ISOC_MODE_YUV420 is some weird custom format with 64-byte lines of YYUV. 
> usbvision_parse_lines_420() is real mess with that scratch_* crap everywhere.
> 
> ISOC_MODE_COMPRESS: There are callbacks to usbvision_request_intra() and also 
> usbvision_adjust_compression(). This is not going to work outside the kernel.
> 
> 
> So I can redo the conversion removal patch to keep the RGB formats and also 
> provide another one to remove the testpattern (it oopses too). But I'm not 
> going to do any major changes in the driver.

While in a perfect world, this should be moved to userspace, I'm ok on keeping
it there, but the OOPS/Panic conditions should be fixed.

Could you please work on a patch fixing the broken stuff, without removing the
conversions?

Thanks,
Mauro