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Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 06:14:33PM +0100, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I said higher up on this thread, I can maintain the Rust bits and 
> help out with the issues around it.
> 
> IMHO, we should at least try this. Who knows, it might work out :)
> 
> Laurent, maybe we can take a piecemeal approach? Right now there are no 
> bindings for MC, but I wouldn't complain about fixing some of the C code 
> when the time comes.

The lifetime issues affect plain V4L2 video nodes too I'm afraid :-)

> Just FYI, I am writing some more bindings, just enough to write a 
> stateless decoder driver. I hope to finish it in time for the media 
> summit. It will give us a more in-depth idea of the pros and cons here.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart