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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] video: move mediabus format definition to a more standard place
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:39:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140930083952.GA4059@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140930093757.003741ac@bbrezillon>

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:41:09 +0300
> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Incidentally, patch 2/5 in this series is missing a documentation update ;-)
> 
> Yep, regarding this patch, I wonder if it's really necessary to add
> new formats to the v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum.
> If we want to move to this new common definition (across the video
> related subsytems), we should deprecate the old enum
> v4l2_mbus_pixelcode, and this start by not adding new formats, don't
> you think ?

I agree in general, but I think it could prove problematic in practice.
If somebody wants to use one of the new codes but is using the V4L2 enum
they have a problem.

That said, given that there is now a unified enum people will hopefully
start converting drivers to it instead.

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 14:02 [PATCH v2 0/5] video: describe data bus formats Boris Brezillon
2014-09-29 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] video: move mediabus format definition to a more standard place Boris Brezillon
2014-09-29 14:10   ` Boris BREZILLON
2014-09-29 14:40   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-29 20:41   ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-30  7:37     ` Boris Brezillon
2014-09-30  8:39       ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-09-30  9:44         ` Boris Brezillon
2014-09-30 21:00           ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-11-03 11:03             ` Boris Brezillon
2014-11-03 14:06   ` Hans Verkuil
2014-09-29 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] video: add RGB444_1X12 and RGB565_1X16 bus formats Boris Brezillon
2014-11-03 18:15   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-09-29 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] drm: add bus_formats and nbus_formats fields to drm_display_info Boris Brezillon
2014-09-29 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] drm: panel: simple-panel: add support for bus_format retrieval Boris Brezillon
2014-09-29 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] drm: panel: simple-panel: add bus format information for foxlink panel Boris Brezillon

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