From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967786AbaLLOCX (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:02:23 -0500 Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.28]:44973 "EHLO lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966281AbaLLOCV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:02:21 -0500 Message-ID: <548AF563.3050204@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:02:11 +0100 From: Hans Verkuil User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ira Snyder CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , 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 References: <1416752630-47360-1-git-send-email-hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, On 11/24/2014 06:45 PM, Ira Snyder wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2014 6:31 AM, "Hans Verkuil" > 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