From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36081 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473AbaJWITw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:19:52 -0400 Message-ID: <5448BA21.2040001@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:19:45 +0200 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sakari Ailus , linux-media@vger.kernel.org CC: j.anaszewski@samsung.com Subject: Re: [v4l-utils RFC 0/2] libmediatext library References: <1413888015-26649-1-git-send-email-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> <54465DDF.5030508@redhat.com> <54477D20.4030207@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <54477D20.4030207@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On 10/22/2014 11:47 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote: > Hi Hans, > > Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi Sakari, >> >> On 10/21/2014 12:40 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is a tiny library for parsing text-based media link, V4L2 sub-device >>> format (and selection) configurations as well as controls with limited >>> types. >> >> Hmm, we also have: >> >> [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] Add a media device configuration file parser. >> >> How do these 2 relate ? > > Jacek is working on a Samsung Exynos libv4l2 plugin, a part of which is not specific to that plugin itself, and thus should be elsewhere (libmediactl, for instance). I didn't know about that effort, and having written something close to that in the past but without finishing it, I posted mine here as well. > > The common subset of functionality is limited to parsing text based link configurations. Most of that is really implemented in libmediactl. Hmm, I guess we need to sort this out then before merging Jacek's plugin. Jacek, have you looked into using (and if necessary extending) libmediactl inside your plugin ? Regards, Hans