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From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
To: Ira Snyder <ira.snyder@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	iws@ovro.caltech.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dwh@ovro.caltech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] carma-fpga: remove videobuf dependency
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:02:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548AF563.3050204@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH1ssNCnfdzCx5DhVW1=Kd8_J0wGaQ2yhbmUoZLG29g+12qV+g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dave,

On 11/24/2014 06:45 PM, Ira Snyder wrote:
> 
> On Nov 23, 2014 6:31 AM, "Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@xs4all.nl <mailto:hverkuil@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> While checking which drivers were still abusing internal videobuf API
>> functions I came across these carma fpga misc drivers. These drivers
>> have absolutely nothing to do with videobuf or the media subsystem.
>>
>> Drivers shouldn't use those low-level functions in the first place,
>> and in fact in the long run the videobuf API will be removed altogether.
>>
>> So remove the videobuf dependency from these two drivers.
>>
>> This has been compile tested (and that clearly hasn't been done for
>> carma-fpga-program.c recently).
>>
>> Greg, is this something you want to take as misc driver maintainer?
>> That makes more sense than going through the media tree.
>>
>> The first patch should probably go to 3.18.
>>
>> I have no idea if anyone can test this with actual hardware. Ira, is
>> that something you can do?
>>
> 
> Hi Hans. My colleague Dave Hawkins (CC'd) is in charge of this hardware now. He can help to get this patch tested.

Any updates on this?

Regards,

	Hans

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-12 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-23 14:23 [PATCH 0/3] carma-fpga: remove videobuf dependency Hans Verkuil
2014-11-23 14:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] carma-fpga-program.c: fix compile errors Hans Verkuil
2014-11-23 14:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] carma-fpga: drop videobuf dependency Hans Verkuil
2014-11-23 14:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] carma-fpga-program: " Hans Verkuil
     [not found] ` <CAH1ssNCnfdzCx5DhVW1=Kd8_J0wGaQ2yhbmUoZLG29g+12qV+g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-12 14:02   ` Hans Verkuil [this message]
2014-12-12 17:00     ` [PATCH 0/3] carma-fpga: remove " David Hawkins

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