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From: Philipp Zabel
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] [media]: of: move graph helpers from
drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:36:57 +0100
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To: Laurent Pinchart
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Rob Herring , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Sylwester Nawrocki , Tomi Valkeinen , Kyungmin Park , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Philipp Zabel
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Am Dienstag, den 11.02.2014, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Tuesday 11 February 2014 14:52:48 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:56:33AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > > > This allows to reuse the same parser code from outside the V4L2
> > > > framework, most importantly from display drivers. There have been
> > > > patches that duplicate the code (and I am going to send one of my own),
> > > > such as
> > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-August/043308.html
> > > > and others that parse the same binding in a different way:
> > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg100761.html
> > > >
> > > > I think that all common video interface parsing helpers should be moved
> > > > to a single place, outside of the specific subsystems, so that it can
> > > > be reused by all drivers.
> > >
> > > Perhaps that should be done rather than moving to drivers/of now and
> > > then again to somewhere else.
> >
> > Do you have a better suggestion where it should move to?
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm - no, because v4l2 wants to use it
> > drivers/media/video - no, because DRM drivers want to use it
> > drivers/video - no, because v4l2 and drm drivers want to use it
>
> Just pointing out a missing location (which might be rejected due to similar
> concerns), there's also drivers/media, which isn't V4L-specific.
Since drivers/Makefile has media/ in obj-y, moving the graph helpers to
drivers/media should technically work.
> > Maybe drivers/of-graph/ ? Or maybe it's just as good a place to move it
> > into drivers/of ?
include/media/of_graph.h,
drivers/media/of_graph.c?
regards
Philipp