From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:30:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail01.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.61]:38615 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20037611AbWHQUan (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:30:43 +0100 Received: from [213.39.182.221] (213.39.182.221) by webmail.hansenet.de (7.2.074) (authenticated as mbx20228207@koeller-hh.org) id 44DC9FF70017F943; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:30:31 +0200 Received: from localhost.koeller.dyndns.org (localhost.koeller.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by sarkovy.koeller.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1501770BE; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:30:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Koeller To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Image capturing driver for Basler eXcite smart camera Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:30:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?=C9ric_Piel?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <200608102318.04512.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> <200608142126.29171.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> <20060817153138.GE5950@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060817153138.GE5950@ucw.cz> Organization: Basler AG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608172230.30682.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12354 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thursday 17 August 2006 17:31, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, I guess v4l api will need to be improved, then. That is still > not a reason to introduce completely new api... The API as implemented by the driver I submitted is very minimalistic, because it is just a starting point. There's more to be added in future, like controlling flashes, interfacing to line-scan cameras clocked by incremental encodes attached to some conveyor, and other stuff which is common in industrial image processing applications. You really do not want to clutter the v4l2 API with these things; that would hardly be an 'improvement'. Different interfaces, designed to serve different purposes... Thomas -- Thomas Koeller, Software Development Basler Vision Technologies An der Strusbek 60-62 22926 Ahrensburg Germany Tel +49 (4102) 463-390 Fax +49 (4102) 463-46390 mailto:thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com http://www.baslerweb.com