From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030948AbaLLRKL (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:10:11 -0500 Received: from ovro.ovro.caltech.edu ([192.100.16.2]:32922 "EHLO ovro.ovro.caltech.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030303AbaLLRKJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:10:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 554 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:10:09 EST Message-ID: <548B1F3C.8000600@ovro.caltech.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:00:44 -0800 From: David Hawkins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Verkuil , Ira Snyder CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , iws@ovro.caltech.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] carma-fpga: remove videobuf dependency References: <1416752630-47360-1-git-send-email-hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <548AF563.3050204@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <548AF563.3050204@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (ovro.ovro.caltech.edu [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:00:53 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Hans! >> 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? Sorry, I was hoping to get around to setting up a build system for this board and testing it, but I have not had a chance to. Go ahead and apply any changes you need, and I'll try to get a hardware test done before Christmas :) Thanks! Cheers, Dave