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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:06:24 +0100
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] [media]: of: move graph helpers from
drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of
Hi Grant,
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:14:51PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:56:33 -0600, Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> > > From: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@...il.com>
> > >
> > > This patch moves the parsing helpers used to parse connected graphs
> > > in the device tree, like the video interface bindings documented in
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt, from
> > > drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of.
> >
> > This is the opposite direction things have been moving...
> >
> > > This allows to reuse the same parser code from outside the V4L2 framework,
> > > most importantly from display drivers. There have been patches that duplicate
> > > the code (and I am going to send one of my own), such as
> > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-August/043308.html
> > > and others that parse the same binding in a different way:
> > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg100761.html
> > >
> > > I think that all common video interface parsing helpers should be moved to a
> > > single place, outside of the specific subsystems, so that it can be reused
> > > by all drivers.
> >
> > Perhaps that should be done rather than moving to drivers/of now and
> > then again to somewhere else.
>
> This is just parsing helpers though, isn't it? I have no problem pulling
> helper functions into drivers/of if they are usable by multiple
> subsystems. I don't really understand the model being used though. I
> would appreciate a description of the usage model for these functions
> for poor folks like me who can't keep track of what is going on in
> subsystems.
You can find it under Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt
Sascha
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