From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932207AbXE1UMS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 16:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751460AbXE1UMJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 16:12:09 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37825 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751373AbXE1UMI (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 16:12:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Markus Rechberger Cc: Jiri Slaby , video4linux-list@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <2172422218943432279@wsc.cz> <1180364420.21547.160.camel@localhost> <1180378677.21547.189.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:11:11 -0300 Message-Id: <1180383071.21547.230.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0-5mdv2007.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > As Luca pointed, if we add conversion for one driver, we should add for > > the rest. > > > > Instead, it would be better if Jiri sends the decoding and the rescaling > > stuff as a patch to v4l2-apps/lib, starting the API decoding library. > > Once we have a library, we can ask the userspace developers to use it > > for the formats not recognized by their userspace apps. > > > > I think it would be better to evaluate existing solutions (eg. libpw). Agreed. Volunteers? -- Cheers, Mauro