Re: [linux-uvc-devel] [RFC] Media controller entity information ioctl [was "Re: [patch] suggestion for media framework"]

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi,

On Thursday 21 June 2012 19:11:14 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On 08.06.2012 04:46, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Monday 04 June 2012 10:11:33 Robert Krakora wrote:
> >> When you say "static" you mean items that are "well known" by the system
> >> by reading a registry at initialization?
> > 
> > By static I mean items that are initialized at driver initialization time
> > and not modified afterwards. I don't think we should support
> > adding/removing items at runtime, at least in the first version.
> > 
> >> When a new device exposes functionality that necessitates the creation of
> >> a new "static" item then how does the registry get updated to reflect
> >> this or am I misunderstanding?
> > 
> > Item types should be defined in a kernel header and documented. If a
> > driver needs a new item types, the driver developer should add the new
> > type to the header and document it.
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> what is your progress on this issue?

None unfortunately. I won't have time to work on this before July at the 
earliest.

> I was able to make video stream on my webcam work more stable by setting
> "snd_usb_audio ignore_ctl_error=1". I think it is one of cases where
> media framework should help.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart