From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philipp Zabel Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit controls from a pipeline Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:51:10 +0100 Message-ID: <1489758670.2905.52.camel@pengutronix.de> References: <20170310130733.GU21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170310140124.GV21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170310125342.7f047acf@vento.lan> <20170310223714.GI3220@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk> <20170311082549.576531d0@vento.lan> <20170313124621.GA10701@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk> <20170314004533.3b3cd44b@vento.lan> <20170317114203.GZ21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <44161453-02f9-0019-3868-7501967a6a82@linux.intel.com> <20170317102410.18c966ae@vento.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170317102410.18c966ae-ch4gOOMV7nf/PtFMR13I2A@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Sakari Ailus , Russell King - ARM Linux , Hans Verkuil , Sakari Ailus , Steve Longerbeam , robh+dt-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, mark.rutland-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org, shawnguo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, kernel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org, fabio.estevam-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org, mchehab-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, nick-gcszYUEDH4VrovVCs/uTlw@public.gmane.org, markus.heiser-O6JHGLzbNUwb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org, laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org, bparrot-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org, sudipm.mukherjee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, minghsiu.tsai-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, tiffany.lin-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, jean-christophe.trotin-qxv4g6HH51o@public.gmane.org, horms+renesas-/R6kz+dDXgpPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org, niklas.soderlund+renesas-1zkq55x86MTxsAP9Fp7wbw@public.gmane.org, robert.jarzmik-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org, songjun.wu-UWL1GkI3JZL3oGB3hsPCZA@public.gmane.org, andrew-ct.chen-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, shuah-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 10:24 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: [...] > The big question, waiting for an answer on the last 8 years is > who would do that? Such person would need to have several different > hardware from different vendors, in order to ensure that it has > a generic solution. > > It is a way more feasible that the Kernel developers that already > have a certain hardware on their hands to add support inside the > driver to forward the controls through the pipeline and to setup > a "default" pipeline that would cover the common use cases at > driver's probe. Actually, would setting pipeline via libv4l2 plugin and letting drivers provide a sane enabled default pipeline configuration be mutually exclusive? Not sure about the control forwarding, but at least a simple link setup and format forwarding would also be possible in the kernel without hindering userspace from doing it themselves later. regards Philipp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html