Doing a stable v4l-utils release

Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
suggests is meant as a beta release.

As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.

Regards,

Hans

Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans Verkuil]

On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
> suggests is meant as a beta release.
> 
> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.

This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run checkpatch
over the libs and clean them up.

I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean up
first.

If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I can
start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
improve readability, no functionality will be touched.

Regards,

	Hans

-- 
Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG, part of Cisco

Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
>> suggests is meant as a beta release.
>>
>> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
>> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
>> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
>> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
>
> This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run checkpatch
> over the libs and clean them up.
>
> I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
> V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean up
> first.
>
> If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I can
> start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
> improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
>

I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.

Regards,

Hans

RE: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Aguirre, Sergio]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-media-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hans de Goede
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:08 AM
> To: Hans Verkuil
> Cc: Linux Media Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
> >> suggests is meant as a beta release.
> >>
> >> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
> >> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
> >> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
> >> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
> >
> > This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run
> checkpatch
> > over the libs and clean them up.
> >
> > I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
> > V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean
> up
> > first.
> >
> > If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I
> can
> > start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
> > improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
> >
> 
> I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.

I have one question regarding this utils:

Is it meant to be platform agnostic v4l2 utilities?

I tried once to compile it for a ARM based CPU (OMAP3 to be specific) from my x86 using a Codesourcery cross compilation toolchain, but it required some changes, which I haven't done still...

Anyways, before proposing patches for this, I just wanted to know how much priority you're giving to multi-platform support.

Regards,
Sergio

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
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Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Hi Sergio,

Aguirre, Sergio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-media-
>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hans de Goede
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:08 AM
>> To: Hans Verkuil
>> Cc: Linux Media Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>> On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
>>>> suggests is meant as a beta release.
>>>>
>>>> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
>>>> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
>>>> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
>>>> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
>>> This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run
>> checkpatch
>>> over the libs and clean them up.
>>>
>>> I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
>>> V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean
>> up
>>> first.
>>>
>>> If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I
>> can
>>> start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
>>> improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
>>>
>> I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.
> 
> I have one question regarding this utils:
> 
> Is it meant to be platform agnostic v4l2 utilities?
> 
> I tried once to compile it for a ARM based CPU (OMAP3 to be specific) from my x86 using a Codesourcery cross compilation toolchain, but it required some changes, which I haven't done still...
> 
> Anyways, before proposing patches for this, I just wanted to know how much priority you're giving to multi-platform support.

The major usage of v4l-utils is on x86 and x86_64 archs. I don't see why not adding
there a logic that will also work with ARM and other architectures, providing, of
course, that they won't break compilation on x86/x86_64 ;) Eventually, maybe the qt
tools (currently, qv4l2) may need a specific versions for those architectures, as they
may need different graphics layouts, in order to better work on cellular phones and 
other devices that have smaller screens.


Cheers,
Mauro

Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans Verkuil]

On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:08:06 Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
> >> suggests is meant as a beta release.
> >>
> >> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
> >> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
> >> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
> >> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
> >
> > This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run checkpatch
> > over the libs and clean them up.
> >
> > I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
> > V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean up
> > first.
> >
> > If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I can
> > start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
> > improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
> >
> 
> I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.

As you noticed I have cleaned up the includes, libv4l1 and libv4l2. libv4lconvert
is a lot more work, so I will do that bit by bit, hopefully this week.

Regards,

         Hans

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
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Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans Verkuil]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010 08:22:03 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:08:06 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
> > >> suggests is meant as a beta release.
> > >>
> > >> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
> > >> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
> > >> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
> > >> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
> > >
> > > This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run checkpatch
> > > over the libs and clean them up.
> > >
> > > I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
> > > V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean up
> > > first.
> > >
> > > If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I can
> > > start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
> > > improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
> > >
> > 
> > I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.
> 
> As you noticed I have cleaned up the includes, libv4l1 and libv4l2. libv4lconvert
> is a lot more work, so I will do that bit by bit, hopefully this week.

I just finished doing the checkpatch conversions (phew!). This weekend I will
push the control bug fix and I also have a v4l2-ctl enhancement pending that
I will try to upstream today.

Regards,

	Hans

-- 
Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG, part of Cisco

Re: Doing a stable v4l-utils release

[Hans Verkuil]

On Friday 30 April 2010 08:43:23 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 April 2010 08:22:03 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:08:06 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 04/26/2010 09:55 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > On Monday 26 April 2010 09:35:23 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> Currently v4l-utils is at version 0.7.91, which as the version
> > > >> suggests is meant as a beta release.
> > > >>
> > > >> As this release seems to be working well I would like to do
> > > >> a v4l-utils-0.8.0 release soon. This is a headsup, to give
> > > >> people a chance to notify me of any bugs they would like to
> > > >> see fixed first / any patches they would like to add first.
> > > >
> > > > This is a good opportunity to mention that I would like to run checkpatch
> > > > over the libs and clean them up.
> > > >
> > > > I also know that there is a bug in the control handling code w.r.t.
> > > > V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. I have a patch, but I'd like to do the clean up
> > > > first.
> > > >
> > > > If no one else has major patch series that they need to apply, then I can
> > > > start working on this. The clean up is just purely whitespace changes to
> > > > improve readability, no functionality will be touched.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I've no big changes planned on the short term, so from my pov go ahead.
> > 
> > As you noticed I have cleaned up the includes, libv4l1 and libv4l2. libv4lconvert
> > is a lot more work, so I will do that bit by bit, hopefully this week.
> 
> I just finished doing the checkpatch conversions (phew!). This weekend I will
> push the control bug fix and I also have a v4l2-ctl enhancement pending that
> I will try to upstream today.

I've finished with my changes, so as far as I am concerned you can prepare a
new release.

Regards,

	Hans

-- 
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