Re: [GIT PATCHES FOR 3.1] s5p-fimc and noon010pc30 driver updates

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

Em 16-08-2011 01:59, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
> 
> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:21:09 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em 15-08-2011 05:45, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
>>>> After having it there properly working and tested independently, we may
>>>> consider patches removing V4L2 interfaces that were obsoleted in favor
>>>> of using the libv4l implementation, of course using the Kernel way of
>>>> deprecating interfaces. But doing it before having it, doesn't make any
>>>> sense.
>>>
>>> Once again we're not trying to remove controls, but expose them
>>> differently.
>>
>> See the comments at the patch series, starting from the patches that
>> removes support for S_INPUT. I'm aware that the controls will be exposed
>> by both MC and V4L2 API, althrough having ways to expose/hide controls via
>> V4L2 API makes patch review a way more complicated than it used to be
>> before the MC patches.
> 
> The MC API doesn't expose controls. Controls are still exposed by the V4L2 API 
> only, but V4L2 can then expose them on subdev nodes in addition to video 
> nodes.

To be clear, when I'm talking about MC, I'm meaning also the subdev nodes API,
as a pure V4L2 api application doesn't know anything about them.

Regards,
Mauro